‘There’s No Easy Answer’, by Sharon O'Malley. Inside Higher Ed, August 16, 2017
A scholarly report states students may not comprehend complex text in a digital format as well as in print. Other educators argue both formats have value.
“There’s no easy answer,” said Lance Eaton, an instructional designer at Brandeis University. But he said he believes “we can still get as much meaning out of digital text. We just haven’t found the right transitions to do what we actually do with a physical book, with digital text … We haven’t found the digital equivalent of interacting with text. We haven’t really trained people to do that.”