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Importance of eBooks in education

Importance of eBooks in education

By Mike Harman | eBook solution | 0 comment | 21 August, 2022 | 43

Bringing technology into classrooms has had a positive impact on the quality of education delivered. Students and teachers unanimously agree upon the benefits of using eBooks in education.

The aim of eBooks is to simplify and enhance the overall learning experience. Digital Books make the learning process more interactive and engaging.

Instead of listening to one person continuously talking, students can now actively participate in the learning process. Integrating eBooks into classroom teaching makes learning a fun and engaging experience. Gone are the days when students had to carry a bag full of books every day to classrooms and back home.

With eBooks entering the educational domain, one device is enough to include the entire year’s syllabus. These digital books can be introduced to students at a very young age, right from kindergarten to university level, ensuring that learning never becomes boring for them.

An effective learning system must ensure that students are actively involved in the learning process. eBooks have brought about an educational reform which helps students to learn better and faster.

Listed below are some of the benefits of introducing eBooks in education:

1. Study Anywhere and Anytime:

An eBook is easy to carry around. Instead of carrying a bag full of books, it is easier to carry a mobile device that supports eBooks. Most students these days always carry a mobile-based device. It could be a smart phone, a tablet or a laptop. The portability of an eBook allows students to refer to their notes and course materials anytime they want. Instead of carrying multiple books, students can now have everything in one place.

2. Offline Access to eBooks:

Over 50% of the world’s population has access to the Internet. Yet we all sometimes have trouble with connectivity and network issues. In order to ensure that the Internet connection does not hamper the learning process mobile devices, these days, offer offline services. Students can now download any content they want and save it on their device and go through them later at their convenience.

3. Multiple Interactive Features:

eBooks are not just plain reading materials, they have all the right tools to help students make notes and highlight content. eBook reading devices have a lot of interactive features, like annotations, pen tools, page zoom, search option, read aloud etc. The search tool is the most favored tool because of its ability to find words and topics in an instant.

The search tool avoids the time-consuming process of turning pages after pages to find a particular topic or phrase. They can bookmark pages and chapters. The online dictionary helps them to quickly find meanings of words. Besides, the user can also change the font size and style and adjust the brightness of the device as per what suits their eyes. An eBook is an all-in-one device which provides a wholesome learning experience to students.

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4. Edutainment Value:

The course content doesn’t have to be only text. You can include music, animations, videos and audio explanations into the learning module. Videos make the learning process more interesting. Students can pause and rewind the video and watch it again. Animations are fun and entertaining and have more retention value.

Watching video content aids in retaining information far better than reading the same stuff. Many publishers are now incorporating videos into their eBooks to keep the students engaged in the course material. Videos and animations add an entertainment value while being informative at the same time. It helps improve their ability to learn and recollect information.

5. Experiment with Augmented Reality:

Augmented Reality is transforming the learning space at an incremental pace. Bringing AR into eBooks provides an immersive learning experience to the students. AR can transform any normal image into an enhanced 3D image, which the students can view from all angles.

They just need to point their AR app-enabled device at the image or object, and a computer-generated visual pops up on their screen. This 3D image helps provide students with an immersive and compelling learning experience. Students would find these enhanced visuals more interesting over flat diagrams. It can also have links to relevant external sites, where they can find more information about the projected image.

6. Save Printing Costs:

eBooks do not require paper. Authors can submit their work in a PDF format, which can be converted into electronic books. Paper does not come into the picture. So, it saves all your printing related costs, right from purchasing printing paper, designing the layouts and hardcover etc. It even saves the environment by eliminating the need for printing.

Millions of trees are cut down each year to produce paper. Add to that the transportation costs, paper making costs, and all the carbon footprint it leaves behind. All this can be avoided if you switch to eBooks. This is also the reason why eBooks in education can be the best alternative than its counterpart printed books.

7. Provide Updated Content to Students:

In traditional paperback books, if there’s some updated information that needs to be included in the syllabus, you’d probably have to reprint new books. But with eBooks, all the learning material is stored on the cloud.

This means, eBooks can be updated anytime you want, and it will be reflected in all eBooks. So, you can always ensure that your students have up-to-date information with them at all times. This again saves your reprinting costs.

8. Interactive Assessments:

eBooks include self-assessments for students to test their knowledge. It does away with the traditional style of giving a quiz at the end of the chapter. eBooks are embedded with quizzes and exercises throughout the chapter and also after the chapter ends, to ensure that students retain the information that they are reading.

It helps measure whether the student has understood the concepts properly. eBook assessments can provide instant results, so students can immediately view the test results. Not just students, the teacher can also view test results and provide immediate feedback.

The introduction of eBooks in education has optimized the learning experience. It has turned learning into a fun and engaging event. Students no longer dread having to carry a load of books and sit through hours of lectures paying only half attention to what is being taught.

eBooks ensure that students are proactively interacting with the learning material by way of videos, animations, augmented reality, changing displays, taking notes etc. Digital books provide students with a completely enriched learning experience and help them improve their academic performance.

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