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CSAwesome is a Java AP CSA and CS1 curriculum with 20,000 users on the Runestone ebook platform. The curriculum is online, free and interactive with embedded Java Active Code examples and problems, mixed-up code (Parsons problems), multiple-choice ...

As technology advances, more and more learning materials can be expected to be available as ebooks. In spite of this, there is limited understanding as to how their content should be presented to enhance learning. In this experiment, 11-year-old ...

In this era of smart devices, new technologies, gadgets, apps, and numerous systems and services available over online, teaching an introductory programming course by traditional lecture method faces challenges to draw student's attention; especially in ...

In this paper, accessibility in the EPUB3 and the draft version of Web Publication formats is studied, with particular reference to interaction features. EPUB3 and Web Publication were chosen primarily because they are based on Open Web Platform ...

The eBooks market has been growing rapidly in recent years. At the same time, evidence shows that eBooks are cannibalizing the market for physical books. To alleviate the cannibalization effect between eBooks and physical books, publishers may choose to ...

With the development of Internet and the use of digital pedagogy, the production of open educational resources grows very quickly. Sharing these resources has become a major challenge both from an economic point of view, but also for the dissemination ...

The shift to electronic books has opened a realm of possibilities for assisting users in reading books, but little of this potential has been realised. Today's eReaders offer simple search features but rarely make any ongoing supportive data about a ...

A core challenge in introductory programming courses during the freshmen year is getting students to understand how a static textual representation (source code) maps to a highly dynamic process (program execution). Most students nowadays are visual ...

Online education is an important tool for supporting the growing number of teachers and students in computer science. We created two eBooks containing interactive content for Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles, one targeted at teachers and ...

We designed, illustrated, and developed Cyberheroes, an educational interactive ebook that teaches children about online privacy. The ebook was evaluated with children and parents, and had positive effects on children's privacy knowledge, and improved ...

The University of Salamanca is going through a series of changes and adjustments related to the new demands that arise within the context of the Information Society. Ebooks and electronic devices are part of the daily life of most part of the Spanish ...

Parsons problems are code segments that must be placed in the correct order with the correct indention. Research on Parsons problems suggests that they might be a more effective and efficient learning approach than writing equivalent code, especially ...

We present a new model for presenting graphics in eBooks to blind readers. It is based on the GraViewer app which allows an accessible graphic embedded in an iBook to be explored on an iPad using speech and non-speech audio feedback. We also introduce a ...

This article is a case study about a book titled The Discipline of Organizing, which proposes a transdisciplinary synthesis of ideas from library and information science, computer science, informatics, cognitive science, business, and other disciplines ...

Educational psychology findings indicate that active processing (such as self-testing) is more effective for learning than passive reading or even rereading. Electronic books (ebooks) can include much more than static pictures and text. Ebooks can ...

This research explores ebook use among undergraduate students, drawing from the technology acceptance model (TAM) to examine ebook usage and adoption. Undergraduates enrolled in a large course at a mid-western university in the United States completed ...

This paper presents the results of a cooperative inquiry study aimed at developing a prototype of enhanced eBook for leisure reading. Together with a group of 9 to 11 years old children we explored various design ideas and, starting from these ideas, we ...

This paper describes a diary study aimed at evaluating the User Experience (UX) of 7 to 12 years old children when interacting with eBooks. The goal was to understand whether, in a context of leisure reading, enhanced eBooks provide a better reading ...

Working with scientific and technical papers on small screen devices, such as tablets and eBook readers, is difficult since these works are often typeset in multiple columns with a relatively small font size.

On tablets, pan and zoom operations allow ...

This paper explores the role of audio as a means to access books in a digital library while being at the location referred to in the books. The books are sourced from the digital library and can either be accompanied by pre-recorded audio or synthesized ...