Chapter 17 in "Communication and Cyberspace" talks about traditional textbooks in classrooms versus the use of hypertext based textbooks. The text talks about Traditional textbooks being for more individual study and as not really promoting an interactive classroom. Whereas hypertext textbooks are more interactive, students can click on text or graphics to lead them to other pages to learn more about a topic, which may hold a students interest more.
I think this may work for lower levels of education such as grammar schools and junior high schools, but once a student gets to high school and most definitely in college, it seems they prefer the original paper based textbooks, at least for studying on their own. In many of my classes here at Fordham, whenever a textbook company offers an online edition of their textbook, it seems only a few students in the class opt to use this version of the textbook even though it is cheaper. It seems that many students still prefer to study out of a physical paper textbook, even if it costs a bit more money.
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