EDUCATION FACULTY STUDENTS’ VIEWS ABOUT USE OF E-BOOKS

Parallel to technological developments, numerous new tools are now available for people’s use.
Societies adapt these tools to their professional lives by learning how to use them. In this way,
they try to establish more comfortable working environments. Universities giving vocational
education are supposed to teach these new technologies to their students to help them become
successful in their future profession. Books that serve as the basic sources of information for
education faculty students are increasingly being transformed into e-books parallel to these
new technologies. In line with these developments, identifying students’ approaches and
preferences regarding e-book could help determine the needs regarding this type of new
technologies. In line with this purpose, the present study aimed at determining the views and
preferences of preservice teachers regarding e-book as well as their levels of general
knowledge about this technology. The participants of the study were 1179 students attending
an education faculty (660 female, 519 male). In the study, qualitative and quantitative
methods were used together. The results revealed that the students did not have sufficient
knowledge about e-book and that they regarded any digital source on the Internet as e-book.
Of all the participating preservice teachers, only 6% of them had sufficient knowledge about ebook.