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Role of Electronic Books in Traditional Learning Process and e-Learning in Higher Education: A Croatian Survey

The electronic books are receiving increasing attention in the recent years. There is also an increasing number of stakeholders that are supporting e-books as legitimate or even as preferred media of dissemination of written works. The trend of growing popularity of e-books has also been perceived and supported by educationalist both for informal learning but also for formal learning allowing for a new medium of distribution of teaching material. The goal of this paper is to examine if this trend has been accepted by students in formal higher education and what is the potential of introducing the e-book resources as official literature in formal education. For the purpose of this paper an extensive survey was conducted among the students of a major Croatian university. The results have showed possible advantages of the usage of e-books. Also results indicate what the possible weaknesses in introducing the electronic form of books as learning material in formal education are. These results may be used as guidelines in planning future steps in inclusion of e-book resources that may provide additional benefits both for the students but also for other stakeholders such as publishers, authors, educators and scientists etc...

e-books; e-learning; ICT; higher education

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