Office of Student Affairs, School of Dentistry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 1100 Florida Avenue, Box 228, New Orleans, LA 70119, USA.
J Dent Educ. 2011 May;75(5):646-52.
Since 2005, the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Dentistry has required the VitalSource Technologies, Inc. Bookshelf as the textbook program for all dental students. In a 2008 survey, four classes of dental students expressed dissatisfaction with most features of the bookshelf. With the expectation that incoming students would be more accustomed and amenable to digital textbooks and to further determine student attitudes toward electronic textbooks, we developed two surveys for first-year dental students in the class of 2013. The sixty-five first-year students received a survey (S1) one week before they were introduced to the e-textbook program. Questions centered on their undergraduate experience with e-books and their expectations of studying with an electronic textbook collection. In the second survey (S2), sent nine months later, the questions focused on students' opinion of the VitalSource Bookshelf. Forty-five students (69.2 percent) completed the S1 survey. Of those, thirty-six (80 percent) responded that they never used e-textbooks in college. Of the nine students who responded that they used e-books, only two liked them without reservations. The response rate to S2 increased to fifty students (77 percent). After using VitalSource for nine months, thirty-three students (66 percent) indicated a preference for reading print textbooks, compared to forty-seven students (57.3 percent) of the four classes surveyed in 2008. Although we expected incoming dental students to have had previous experience with e-textbooks, only nine students had used e-books in college courses. Few students indicated preference for e-textbooks, and over half of the group was undecided. After experience with VitalSource for first-year courses, students indicated that they like VitalSource for the ability to search for specific topics across the entire collection of dental books, but not for reading large amounts of text.
自 2005 年以来，路易斯安那州立大学健康科学中心牙科学院一直要求 VitalSource Technologies, Inc. Bookshelf 作为所有牙科学生的教科书计划。在 2008 年的一项调查中，四批牙科学生对书架的大多数功能表示不满。我们期望新生会更加习惯和适应数字教科书，并进一步确定学生对电子教科书的态度，因此我们为 2013 年的一年级牙科学生开发了两个调查。65 名一年级学生在接触电子教科书计划前一周收到了一份调查（S1）。问题集中在他们本科阶段使用电子书的经验以及他们对电子教科书的期望上。在第二个调查（S2）中，九个月后发送，问题集中在学生对 VitalSource Bookshelf 的看法上。45 名学生（69.2%）完成了 S1 调查。其中，36 名（80%）学生表示他们在大学从未使用过电子书。在回答使用电子书的 9 名学生中，只有 2 名学生毫无保留地表示喜欢电子书。S2 的回复率增加到 50 名学生（77%）。使用 VitalSource 九个月后，33 名学生（66%）表示更喜欢阅读印刷教科书，而 2008 年调查的四个班级中，有 47 名学生（57.3%）表示更喜欢阅读印刷教科书。尽管我们预计新生在大学课程中已经有过使用电子书的经验，但只有 9 名学生在大学课程中使用过电子书。很少有学生表示对电子书有偏好，而且一半以上的学生还没有决定。在使用 VitalSource 进行第一年课程后，学生们表示他们喜欢 VitalSource 能够在整个牙科书籍收藏中搜索特定主题的功能，但不喜欢阅读大量文本。
