Print vs. Digital preferences. study material and reading behavior of students at the university of Iceland

Ágústa Pálsdóttir; Sigríður Björk Einar

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_22

Print vs. Digital preferences. study material and reading behavior of students at the university of Iceland

Ágústa Pálsdóttir^*, Sigríður Björk Einar

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Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics

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Abstract

The study examined preferences for printed or electronic course material by students at the University of Iceland The questionnaire was adapted from the Academic Reading Questionnaire by Mizrachi. Data was collected as an online survey and response rate was 6%. The main result of the study is that participants were more likely to prefer course material in printed format than electronic. The participants were found to vary somewhat in their preference for reading format by sex and their field of study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Literacy
Subtitle of host publication	Key to an Inclusive Society - 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Loriene Roy, Joumana Boustany, Serap Kurbanoglu, Tolga Cakmak, Esther Grassian, Diane Mizrachi, Sonja Spiranec
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	228-237
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9783319521619
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_22
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	4th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2016 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 10 Oct 2016 → 13 Oct 2016

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	676
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929

Conference

Conference	4th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2016
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	10/10/16 → 13/10/16

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© Springer International Publishing AG 2016.

Other keywords

Academic reading
Electronic format
Iceland
Printed format

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Pálsdóttir, Á., & Einar, S. B. (2016). Print vs. Digital preferences. study material and reading behavior of students at the university of Iceland. In L. Roy, J. Boustany, S. Kurbanoglu, T. Cakmak, E. Grassian, D. Mizrachi, & S. Spiranec (Eds.), Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society - 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 228-237). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 676). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_22

Pálsdóttir, Ágústa ; Einar, Sigríður Björk. / Print vs. Digital preferences. study material and reading behavior of students at the university of Iceland. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society - 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Loriene Roy ; Joumana Boustany ; Serap Kurbanoglu ; Tolga Cakmak ; Esther Grassian ; Diane Mizrachi ; Sonja Spiranec. Springer Verlag, 2016. pp. 228-237 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Print vs. Digital preferences. study material and reading behavior of students at the university of Iceland. / Pálsdóttir, Ágústa; Einar, Sigríður Björk.

Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society - 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Loriene Roy; Joumana Boustany; Serap Kurbanoglu; Tolga Cakmak; Esther Grassian; Diane Mizrachi; Sonja Spiranec. Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 228-237 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 676).

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