This period of online education is witnessing a large-scale use of e-books as resources and materials for studying. Unlike the conventional mode of the extensive use of physical books, this era of ‘study-from-home’ popularizes the use of e-books by the students. Teachers, while teaching via the classroom app or discussing any answer in the LMS and ERP, may extract huge benefits from the e-books. Wondering how? The teachers can share the e-books on the screen while taking classes, thus facilitating the teaching and learning process in online classrooms.
Learning has become easier as the students can easily read the study topics from any device anywhere, anytime. The most amazing thing about e-books is that the students can complete their syllabus just with the help of e-books instead of going for the physical copies of books. In this blog, we will share with you the various benefits that e-books bring to the table.
What Are E-books?
E-books or electronic books are digital versions of books that are printable, visually rich, portable, and supportable in various formats and platforms. You can easily download any e-book you require from the internet and save it on any device you like, be it your laptop, smartphone, laptop, etc. No matter if the students are studying at the kindergarten or university level, e-books can be used by anyone since almost all the physical books of various standards now come with their respective digital versions.
It has been observed that e-books make the learning process quite interactive for both the parties- students and teachers. Students find it more interesting to learn from digital versions of books. As a result, the importance of e-books will accelerate all the more in the coming days.
Benefits Of E-Books & Online Eduction
#1: Offers A Great Deal Of Flexibility To The Students
E-books help the students pick up any topic and start learning anytime, anywhere by just a tap on their smartphones or laptops. The fact that e-books are portable is increasing the flexibility of the students in their study schedule. Usually, everyone carries at least their smartphones to all the places they go. As a result, they can easily access their syllabus books in the form of e-books and start studying.
#2: E-boooka Are Cost-Friendly
The escalating prices of the books in the market is not unknown to us. While a section of a people may not find it difficult to purchase the books at higher prices, there always remains a certain group of people who are unable to afford the required books for their studies. Given the fact that the e-books do not charge a single penny and that almost everyone owns at least one smartphone in the family, these digitalsied books have emerged as great cost-friendly options. Just download the book, and start reading!
#3: E-books Are Equipped With Interactive & Ideal Study Tools
Apart from containing the main text, e-books come with several helpful tools that aid the students while studying. The features and tools of e-books include highlighting options, annotators, ‘zooming in’ and ‘zooming out’ the page options, say aloud, search bar, etc. All of these help in their own ways to help the students study effectively. They can easily highlight any important line of the text or use the search bar to access the topics or chapters that they need to learn. They can even adjust the brightness of the screen so that they can read the lines comfortably without having to endure the glaring light from the device.
#4: E-books Can Be Accessed Even In The Offline Mode
Just because e-books are digitalised versions doesn’t mean that you need to rely on internet 24/7. Even if any kind of network connectivity issue arises, you can continue reading your lessons. Wondering how? Well, just by downloading it! After it is downloaded, you can access it offline anytime you want.
Final Words
E-books are great options to maximixe the learning scope of the students in this era of online education relying on the LMS portals and the ERP. The rich illustrations in the books add to the thrill and enthusiasm of the students while learning. The portability of the digital texts and the utter flexibility that it brings with them is sure to boost the academic performance of the students in the present and coming days, too.
