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THES on Arnold and ebooks

Last month the Guardian reported that the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has a budget deficit of over $24 billion, thinks he can make savings by getting rid of ?expensive textbooks? in schools by replacing them with ebooks.

Tara Brabazon's article from the Times Higher Education Supplement, questions whether in this case, educational technology has been 'introduced to cut costs in resources, not to enhance existing standards'.

She also looks at some interesting emerging research that suggests 'screen reading tends towards data grabbing, power browsing and key-word searching' not 'deeper, immersed' engagement.

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).