Date

2011-05-06

Lecturer

Rafael Ibáñez Molinero (UNED)

Summary

The digital revolution is changing our reading habits in a radical way. However, reading on screens still has many disadvantages compared to reading on paper. A major one is the difficulty of the interaction with the text. Active reading or studying texts on paper usually involves a series of steps: “working” on the text (highlighting, tagging, annotating, etc.) and then writing an outline or summary. Libertexto condenses these steps into one, because while working on the text, a schema is automatically formed. In addition, the reader can enrich the documents with images, notes, links, etc. Thus, the reader forms his/her own structured and enriched text from the documents. Libertexto has a clear educational application: reading becomes a more active and significant process, improving understanding and facilitating the study. Libertexto is a Mozilla Firefox add-on and it is under the GPL license. See more information at Libertexto.

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Author's Biography

Rafael Ibáñez Molinero

Rafael Ibáñez Molinero works as a teacher of Secondary Education (Educational Guidance specialty) since 1999 and as a tutor in Psychology at the Associated Center of the UNED in Córdoba since 2000. He graduated in Psychology (1997) and Ph.D. in Cognitive Science (2007), both degrees completed at the UNED. He coordinates the project Libertexto, funded by the Ministry of Education, since 2009.