Digital educational reading (on the example of the university library)

In the sphere of higher education electronic library systems (ELS) – external or internal, – acquired to the library collections, are the basic digital educational resources. Their qualitative characteristics are not normatively defined, but are related to similar characteristics of individual electronic documents.The predominant number of electronic EBS documents are derivative electronic publications that completely copy the printed analogue. The form and method of organizing the text of such documents does not take into account the specifi                                                                                          of scanning reading, which is characteristic of modern students. The importance of electronic resources in the information support of the educational process in universities necessitates the study of digital educational reading, which will increase their effectiveness. To test the hypothesis, starting from the 2021/2022 academic year at the Bashkir Institute of Physical Culture (Bashkortostan, Ufa), the study is being conducted among full-time and part-time students, the purpose of which is to compare the effectiveness of reading educational printed and electronic publications. Quantitative research methods are indicators “reading time” and “number of keywords”. Writing abstracts has become a qualitative indicator for to study the reading comprehension. Up to 01.03.2022, 73 students took part in the study. The analysis of the results showed that the speed of reading electronic texts is higher if compared to reading printed publications. But the indicators of meaningful perception are higher among students reading printed text. The purpose of the article is to present the results of the research that may be taken into account and will become useful when organizing the educational process.

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