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Print or Electronic? Estonian Students’ Preferences in Their Academic Readings

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Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society (ECIL 2016)

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Results of this study inform universities and their libraries about students’ preferences in their academic readings. They help academic staff, while preparing course reading lists and librarians in making collection development decisions. They can assist in the larger policy decision context of developing educational policy, as well. The aim of the study is to investigate Estonian students’ preferences of academic reading formats. Results show that Estonian students prefer their course materials in print. By their own evaluation they remember course materials, focus and review them better, when reading from printed pages. The study is part of a multinational research project Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS).

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank dear colleagues Diane Mizrachi from University of California, USA, Joumana Boustany from Paris Descartes University, France and Serap Kurbanoglu from Hacettepe University, Turkey for initiating this international research project and letting us be part of that useful study.

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    Mai Põldaas

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  1. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

    Loriene Roy

  7. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Tolga Çakmak

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Põldaas, M. (2016). Print or Electronic? Estonian Students’ Preferences in Their Academic Readings. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society. ECIL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_23

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