ERIC Number: EJ1167339
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 14
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An Empirical Evaluation of a Broad Ranging E-Text Adoption with Recommendations for Improving Deployment Success for Students
Chapman, Jared R.; Seeley, Eugene L.; Wright, Norman S.; Glenn, Lowell M.; Adams, Lynn L.
e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, v10 n2 p1-14 2016
Electronic course materials have several advantages over printed materials. While these advantages create an enticing argument for the adoption of electronic textbooks, there are disadvantages that may hobble e-text adoption. This case study investigates the e-text adoption process for 50 class sections across 8 business disciplines with 27 different instructors. It explores interventions that can be pursued to ameliorate important challenges and effect a more successful e-text adoption. It provides faculty, publishers, and university administrators with actionable advice for improving student response to e-text implementations. A wide variety of feelings were expressed about how e-texts are implemented, ranging from strong dissatisfaction to strong satisfaction. The results indicate that great care should be taken to ensure that as many students as possible have a positive experience during an e-text adoption. Several variables were identified as important to students and can readily be influenced and improved by faculty, administrators, and vendors. These include: "how effectively professors use the material", "price", "quality of the sign-up process", and "how useful the e-textbook platform training was". Finally, two factors, technical and functional satisfaction, should be considered when implementing e-text solutions.
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Business Administration Education, Intervention, Electronic Learning, Electronic Publishing, Textbook Research, Focus Groups, Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Program Implementation, Student Surveys, Correlation, Predictor Variables, Multiple Regression Analysis, Usability, Preferences, Content Analysis, Case Studies, College Students
Australian Business Education Research Association. PO Box 408, Mapleton, Queensland 4560, Australia. e-mail: editor@ejbest.org; Web site: http://www.ejbest.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Utah
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