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Despite the fact that the Digital Ink Book (DIB) has been developing over the past 10 years in different contexts, it has not made its presence felt within university education. This paper focuses on experimental educational use of the e-book in the context of a virtual university. Based on the available technologies, this research for technological innovation in education aims to carry out a pilot test with the students on the Digital Literacy and Exclusion course from a user centred design (UCD) perspective. Each student received a Digital Ink Book (DIB) for use in both the reading and working notes necessary for learning the different topics that make up the course. The data gathering was divided into a field diary kept by students participating in the DIB pilot test, a final report from each student about their own process of acquiring digital literacy in relation to the DIB, a virtual forum for the course, where the students commented on their difficulties and discoveries in using the DIB, and individual interviews with the students participating in the project once the experiment was finished. Through a content analysis of collected data we mapped the processes used by the students as strategies for the study of the university material using the DIB from a UCD perspective.
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Gil-Rodríguez, E.P., Planella-Ribera, J. (2008). Educational Uses of the e-Book: An Experience in a Virtual University Context. In: Holzinger, A. (eds) HCI and Usability for Education and Work. USAB 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89350-9_5
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