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Investigating the effects of interactive e-book towards academic achievement
Lim, Bibiana Chiu-Yiong1, Liu, Llewellyn Wee-Ling2, Choo, Chian-Hou3.
Universities are trending towards electronic books (e-books) as instructional materials,
displacing traditional printed books. The rapid acquisition of e-books has changed the way information
is presented and one of the improvements is to make e-books interactive. However, there is an
incomplete body of knowledge on how interactive e-books affect students, particularly in the learning
of statistics. This paper aims to examine the effects of interactive e-books on academic achievement.
This paper adopted an experimental approach to test the causal effect of the two types of e-books,
namely Traditional E-book (TE) and Interactive E-book (IE) on a sample of undergraduates enrolled in
an introductory statistics unit. The experimental results indicated that students who learn statistics
through IE produced higher scores in academic achievement than students who learn through TE. The
findings of the study first extend the existing theory by showing that TE and IE can account for the
variations in academic achievement. The study implied that e-books should not be static and e-book
publishers and educators can choose to design their ebooks using interactive formats with animation
components depending on available resources. The study offers new insights on how academic
achievement of students can be better managed through the design of e-book types.
Affiliation:
- Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Malaysia
- Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Malaysia
- Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Malaysia
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