为什么不使用数字教科书的学生？
byTeachThought Staff
When eTextbooks were first introduced, they were supposed to be the wave of the future and experts thought we’d see eReader-toting students littering college campuses, and of course being adopted in droves by online university students.
But they haven’t taken off quite as expected: according to market research firm学生监视器, only about 11% of college students have bought e-textbooks. So what happened? Here, we’ll explore several reasons why students aren’t yet warming up to the idea of eTextbooks today.
1.他们需要的书不是available in digital format
对于许多学生而言，电子书的使用与偏好或价格无关，而与可用性有关。学生所需的学校所需的书通常根本无法以数字格式获得。即使在数字上可以使用某些标题，学生通常会在每个学期采取全或全无的方法来购买他们的教科书，在同一地点购买所有书籍。当很少有书籍作为Etextbook提供的书籍时，他们只是不必费心去寻找它们。
2.They are not as affordable as you might think
削减物理生产和运送教科书的成本肯定是一种节省资金，但是最近的一项研究发现，大多数情况下，储蓄并没有传给学生。实际上，对于大多数学生而言，Etextbook为他们节省了高达1美元。是什么赋予了？像iPad和Kindle这样的电子阅读器的高昂成本是“出版商定价决策”，以及如果学生租用电子书，他们稍后无法将它们出售回去，这总计成令人惊讶的电子文本簿成本。
3.You can’t lend or resell most e-textbooks
与印刷的材料不同，将其下载到电子阅读器的教科书留在那里，别无其他。因此，可能与室友分享一本书的学生遇到了困难，而那些习惯于在学期结束时转售书籍的人也撞到了砖墙。学生发现，当这些限制用于分享纸质书籍时，很难应对这些限制。
4.It feels strange to mark up an e-book
Although most eBooks come outfitted with a small army of tools that allow students to bookmark, highlight, take notes, and explore through footnotes, definitions, and more, students just aren’t impressed. They often still prefer tangible books that they can physically highlight and write notes in the margins of. Even those who might be open to digital markup arewary that they might lose their notes.
5。e-Textbooks are heavy, too
eTextbooks were supposed to replace the pounds upon pounds of paper books that college students stuff their backpacks with. But digital books are heavy in a different way: their storage size. Even on a 64GB iPad, there’s simply not enough room to store every single book a student might need. Assuming students are using their iPads solely for books (they aren’t), books that can be up to 10GB each leaves room for just about eight books on one device.
6。有更好的数字选项
When you consider the wealth of media-rich alternatives available to students online, some e-textbooks with just plain print and images seem downright primitive. Video, audio, interactive websites, and activities can often be accessed using iPads and other eReaders with web browsing. Students may find this material to be more helpful than what eTextbooks have to offer.
7。今天的学生从书中长大
缓慢采用电子遗传书的部分原因是，当今的学生不习惯他们的简单事实。他们在小学的教科书中长大，他们对改变不感兴趣。专家认为，使用电子书设备长大的学生将在上大学时继续延续这种趋势。
8. eBooks offer a different experience
人们可能会认为阅读教科书基本上是相同的。但是一些研究人员认为，大脑会以不同的方式吸收数字和印刷文本。在一项研究中，阅读印刷书籍的学生似乎更充分了解材料，并且比其他以数字格式阅读相同材料的学生要快得多。他们解释说，从他们的角度来看，数字和印刷阅读非常类似于“认识”和“记住”之间的区别。
9.Finding e-textbooks is a scavenger hunt
Some textbooks are available in one format, and not the other, or available to download through several different stores. That means students not only have to hunt down their textbooks across several different platforms and websites, they also have to remember where they are, learn how to navigate and use each reader, and typically, maintain logins for all of them.One studentdescribes the experience as a “sick, expensive scavenger hunt” that makes “as much sense as going to three separate grocery stores to buy eggs, bread, and milk.” Although eTextbooks are thought to be a simpler solution, they really can’t be until students can utilize them on a unified platform.
10。Students expect more from digital editions
Students today are used to digital tools that allow them to share everything from pictures of their morning cup of coffee to their notes from class. Put a book on an eDevice, and they expect the same. So when they run into restrictions and a lack of social tools when using eTextbooks, they’re understandably disappointed. They’re looking for social reading app integrations, shared highlighting, and the ability to take advantage of web-based tools, not just reading.
