Most U.S. College Students Now Prefer Digital Reading

[Cindy]

What kind of interruption are you talking about with a tablet? In my
experience, once you start reading on a tablet, it's the same as if you
were reading a book. Sure you could close the book and start playing a game
if your tablet has that ability, but you could get the same distraction
from a regular book and a nearby gaming console. The studies on
multi-tasking don't apply here.

Cindy

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Cynthia Greenan, MLS
Submissions Coordinator
Portal of Geriatric Online Education (POGOe.org)

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Sharon Foster <fostersm1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not entirely on point, but there has been a study of the effect of
> interruptions on tasks like writing software that require a stretch of
> uninterrupted thinking time. The "cost" of the interruption is considerably
> more than the length of the interruption itself, as the person who is being
> interrupted has to context switch from one task to another and then back
> again. This is intuitively obvious to most of us.
>
> I don't have the resources at my fingertips, but the article I'm thinking
> of would have been in an ACM or IEEE publication, probably on software
> standards and practices, approximately 10 years ago.
>
> Sharon
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> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Sandford, Mark <SANDFORDM1 at wpunj.edu>wrote:
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>> Among our students, the most popular format is, by a good margin,
>> whatever is cheapest.  Our bookstore rents textbooks for a semester and
>> that is the most popular option.  ****
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>> I’m curious what, if any, effect the format has on comprehension and
>> retention of subject material.  Using a tablet as a reader introduces any
>> number of instantly-available distractions, which is very dangerous to a
>> generation that generally believes their brains are capable of efficient
>> multitasking.  Is anyone aware of any studies that have looked into that?
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>> The majority of U.S. college students now prefer digital formats whether
>> they’re reading textbooks or “fun” books, according to a new survey from
>> the Pearson Foundation.
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>> “Survey on Students and Tablets 2012” polled 1,206 U.S. college students
>> and 204 college-bound high school seniors. Some findings:
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>> —College students prefer digital over print for “fun” reading (57
>> percent) and textbook reading (58 percent), “a reversal from last year,
>> when more students preferred print over digital.” Pearson says the trend is
>> also apparent among high-school seniors (though it doesn’t break out which
>> format the majority prefer), “and is mostly driven by an increase in the
>> preference to use tablets for reading.” The study doesn’t ask whether
>> students are using tablets or e-ink e-readers for reading.
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>> —A quarter of college students now own a tablet, compared to just 7
>> percent last year. Seventeen percent of college-bound high school seniors
>> own a tablet, compared to four percent last year.
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>> —Thirty-five percent of college students who own a tablet also own “an
>> e-book reader or small tablet device.” (Not sure what a “small tablet
>> device” is! Asking Pearson.)
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>> —Among college students who own tablets, the iPad is the most popular (63
>> percent), followed by the Kindle Fire (26 percent) and Samsung Galaxy Tab
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