ABSTRACT The purpose of this qualitative research was to explore (a) how graduate students interpret their experiences with the use of e-books for learning, (b) which reasons influence their preference for e-books or printed books when they learn, (c) how they perceive the impact e-books have on their learning, and (d) how they compare learning experiences between the use of a given printed book and an e-book containing similar content but also offering additional multimedia options. Participants consisted of 20 graduate students from one midsize university in the United States. The major findings of this research were that graduate students generally prefer using e-books to printed texts. When studying and preparing for an exam, however, graduate students will only supersede their familiarity with printed text if a given e-book offers similar content as the printed text and provides additional resources. Research implications and recommendations for future research were also provided.

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研究生对使用电子书进行学术学习的观点

摘要本定性研究的目的是探索（a）研究生如何解释使用电子书进行学习的经历，（b）为何会影响他们学习时对电子书或印刷书的偏爱，（c ）他们如何看待电子书对他们学习的影响，以及（d）他们如何比较给定印刷书的使用和包含类似内容但还提供其他多媒体选项的电子书的学习经验。参加者包括来自美国一所中型大学的20名研究生。这项研究的主要发现是，研究生通常更喜欢使用电子书而不是印刷文本。但是，在学习和准备考试时，如果给定的电子书提供的内容与印刷文本相似，并且提供了更多资源，则研究生只会取代对印刷文本的熟悉程度。还提供了对未来研究的研究意义和建议。