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The use of e-textbooks

E-textbooks also known as electronic or digital books are defined in the literature as the digital content which is developed for teaching and learning purposes and which can be read from various types of electronic devices. They should be lower cost and user-friendly. The purpose of this literature review was to determine the frequency of use of e-textbooks in elementary and secondary schools and at universities, in European Union (EU), United States (USA) and in the rest of the world. Motivation for this research was the implementation of a computer-based teaching program, including e-textbooks, that is in progress in Croatian schools. The literature review was conducted by researching the database ProQuest Central for published content for the last ten years. The search strategy was based on keywords: e-book, e-textbook, students, school, adoption and the use of include and exclude filters to eliminate unwanted hits. The results are sorted by three major categories: EU, USA and the rest of the world and subcategories elementary and secondary schools, and universities. The research was carried out in December 2018. This research included 138 studies about e-textbooks. Most of them were conducted in the USA with university students and in the UK also with university students. Less research was conducted in secondary and primary schools, in all three major categories. More research is carried out with university students probably because researchers work at the universities where research is more common.

e-book, e-textbook, students, school, adoption

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