Influence of usage of e-books, online educational materials, and other programming books and students' profiles on adoption of printed programming textbooks

Q Social Sciences

Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems Pub Date : 2017-11-08 DOI:10.1108/PROG-06-2015-0046

R. Bringula

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the influence of students’ profiles and the usage of e-books, online educational materials, and other programming books on the adoption of printed programming textbooks for computing students. It was hypothesized that the predictor variable set could not explain any of the variance of the dependent variables. Design/methodology/approach This descriptive study utilized a content-validated questionnaire. The study involved 190 student participants. Canonical correlation analysis was employed to determine whether students’ profiles and use, perceived usefulness, and preference of e-books, online educational materials, and other programming books explained any variance in printed programming textbook adoption. Findings Printed programming textbook adoption could be explained by two functions. The first function revealed that the use and the perceived usefulness of textbooks were positively influenced by the use of e-books and other programming books and by the perceived usefulness of e-books, fora/blogs, other programming books, and YouTube. The second function revealed that the use of printed programming textbooks alone was positively influenced by the use of e-books and other programming books but was negatively influenced by the perceived usefulness of programming websites and YouTube and by the preference of programming websites over textbooks. Originality/value The study provided empirical evidence that e-books, other programming books, and online educational materials provide additional resources to students. Thus, e-books, online educational materials, and other programming books complement, rather than threaten, the existence of printed programming textbooks.

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电子书、在线教育材料、其他编程书籍和学生档案的使用对印刷编程教科书采用的影响

本文的目的是确定学生的个人资料和电子书、在线教育材料和其他编程书籍的使用对计算机专业学生采用印刷编程教科书的影响。假设预测变量集不能解释因变量的任何方差。设计/方法/方法本描述性研究采用内容验证问卷。这项研究涉及190名学生。采用典型相关分析来确定学生的概况和使用、感知有用性以及对电子书、在线教育材料和其他编程书籍的偏好是否解释了印刷编程教科书采用的任何差异。结果:编程教材的采用可以用两个功能来解释。第一个函数显示，教科书的使用和感知有用性受到电子书和其他编程书籍的使用以及电子书、论坛/博客、其他编程书籍和YouTube的感知有用性的积极影响。第二个函数显示，电子书和其他编程书籍的使用对印刷编程教科书的使用产生了积极影响，但编程网站和YouTube的感知有用性以及编程网站对教科书的偏好则产生了消极影响。独创性/价值该研究提供了经验证据，证明电子书、其他编程书籍和在线教育材料为学生提供了额外的资源。因此，电子书、在线教育材料和其他编程书籍是对印刷编程教科书的补充，而不是威胁。

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Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems 工程技术-计算机：信息系统

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1.30

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0.00%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： ■Automation of library and information services ■Storage and retrieval of all forms of electronic information ■Delivery of information to end users ■Database design and management ■Techniques for storing and distributing information ■Networking and communications technology ■The Internet ■User interface design ■Procurement of systems ■User training and support ■System evaluation