Acceptability and Usability of E-Books for Digital Immigrant Teachers in a Title I Elementary School.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to discover the factors that affect digital immigrant teachers’ acceptance and usability of e-books in a Title I elementary school. The term digital immigrant describes individuals born before the adoption of digital technology in 1980. The participant teachers will be interviewed to identify their perception of usefulness of the e-book to improve the reading skills of their students. Data from the interviews will be analyzed to identify the relationship between teachers’ perception of usefulness and ease of use of e-books and their intention to use e-books in a Title I elementary school.This study has the potential to reveal current trends to motivate digital immigrant teachers to incorporate e-book reading applications in a traditional classroom setting to enhance students’ reading skills.Themes were identified related to (a) usefulness of e-books, (b) ease of use of e-books, (c) experiences using e-books, and (d) attitudes about the e-book program. Elementary teachers’ responses indicated digital immigrant teachers were hesitant to utilize the e-book reader program due to negative perceptions of its ease of use, particularly with kindergarten through Grade 2 students. .