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Saturday, January 31, 2004
More College Students Giving Textbooks A Pass - Susan C. Thomson, KRT
....Nobody is predicting that textbooks will go the way of slates and quill pens, but this is the digital age. Today’s college students learn not just from the printed word but from television and the Internet. Savvy professors have learned to supplement books with new media. “I have a sense that we are losing the attention of these younger people by being too book-oriented,” said Van Reidhead, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. “I think we have to learn how to re-engage this shorter-attention-span group of people.” Reidhead, like many professors now, requires less book and more online learning than he used to. He says he likes the Web for the flexibility it gives him to create links to topics of special interest that come up in class.
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