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In my opinion, the reasons for choosing print books are as follows: they have collection value, reading quality, convenient to write down modify and annotate; and print books make students more able to settle down to accept new knowledge, which is relatively healthier than to read books by using electronics. Also, “students are offered limited licenses to these books and so they are, in a sense, only renting access to a digital file that is much less flexible than a print book” (para, 4). Moreover, for the online book, “either they get access for a limited period, they get the material in a proprietary format, or they have to use restrictive platforms to engage the material”; it means most of the e-book are not transferable.
However, students required to buy textbooks which pushing up the cost of textbooks. More and more students like to use online reading. According to the Stommel, the author proved that textbooks became more and more expensive; “when I was an undergraduate student in the 1990s, I would budget around $250 each semester for all my books. Now, students find themselves commonly paying more than that for a single book”(para. 3).The reasons for choosing e-books are low cost, convenient to carry out, low carbon environmental protection, renewable, and diverse sources. In a word, e-book will become more and more suitable for users with the development of technology.
With the current situation of more and more students using online textbooks; will the paper books be replaced by online books in the future?
The open university with online courses bring convenient to lots of students, but students used to study in a traditional way. Is open education better than traditional education？I believe it is a controversial topic.
References
Stommel, J. (2018, September 12). Textbooks, OER, and the Need for Open Pedagogy. Retrieved from https://criticaldigitalpedagogy.pressbooks.com/chapter/textbooks-oer-and-the-need-for-open-pedagogy/
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