Abstract
Technology has become an indispensable phenomenon in the contemporary era which has its impact in every walk of life and education is not an exception to this. The tech-savvy students of today have easily adopted the electronic textbooks as a replacement of printed textbooks owing to its ease of use, cost effectiveness and accessibility. Varied views on the students’ preference of the specified format of textbooks have laid the platform for more formal and fo-cused research pursuits these days globally. Therefore, a research to differenti-ate the advantages and disadvantages of both the formats and the reasons that are primary to opt for the one over the other at a regional level is very much the need of the hour. The study aimed to find out the interest and preference that prevailed in the minds of students of Gulf University, Kingdom of Bah-rain, with respect to the adopting of electronic textbooks over the printed text-books as this kind of study has been carried out much limited in this region. A list of questions was made in order to find out the pros and cons of the printed textbooks and electronic textbooks so that the valid reasons for the preference could be identified. The study adopted a quantitative research design and the questionnaire as a research tool to collect the data. The result affirms that most of the students are familiar with both the formats of textbooks and are more comfortable using electronic textbooks and have expressed their willingness to a complete shift from printed textbooks to electronic textbooks. Nevertheless, the findings make it clear that the students opt for electronic textbooks depend-ing upon the nature of the subject or academic discipline.
Highlights
Cybernation has become an indispensable phenomenon of the contemporary era which has its impact on every field of civilization
A total of 312 students (Female: 180 and Male: 132) of Gulf University belonging to various academic disciplines responded to the questionnaire out of which the significant 52.2% are in the age group of 17-22 years and 32.4% in the age group of 2328 years
The responses make it very clear that the printed textbooks are losing its importance amidst the students as the students of today tend to resort to the notes taken in the classes, abstracts from the recent research studies and other online resources for the knowledge acquisition
Summary
Cybernation has become an indispensable phenomenon of the contemporary era which has its impact on every field of civilization. As Weisburg [1] suggested that digital technology is used for “communication, socialization, entertainment and learning information,” it has its significant role to play in the area of education as well. In the opinion of Simon and Garcia-Belmar [3], the tech-savvy mentality of the contemporary students has welcomed the encroachment of innovative technologies into the teaching and learning process. In today’s era, education is bound to infuse technology to make the teaching interesting and the learning experience just informative and fascinating and fun-filled by using varied digital tools meant for education as affirmed by Dayakar [5] that “the eresources have become an inseparable part of the educational system.”. In today’s era, education is bound to infuse technology to make the teaching interesting and the learning experience just informative and fascinating and fun-filled by using varied digital tools meant for education as affirmed by Dayakar [5] that “the eresources have become an inseparable part of the educational system.” To add to this, Makwanya and Oni [6] asserted that, “Individuals are used to producing, writing, storing and retrieving documents electronically on a wide range of electronic devices.”
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