Digital Textbooks in
Education
Current trends & topics in Europe/US
Markus Gylling, CTO DAISY & IDPF <mgylling@idpf.org>
JEPA Workshop June 5, 2013, Tokyo
single vendor solutions
Peter Tillberg – Blir du lönsam, lille vän? 1972-73
vendor-neutral solutions:
• servers
• reading systems (clients)
• communication protocols
• content
Peter Tillberg – Blir du lönsam, lille vän? 1972-73
Current Topics:
Use cases and Functional Requirements
Use cases and Functional Requirements [1]
• Content issuing and access
– Rights
– Courses/Curricula
• Cloud-based status tracking/statistics
• Assignments/tasks
– on group and individual basis
• Assessments: launch and return
• Individual, peer-to-peer and teacher/student annotations
Communication protocols
Use cases and Functional Requirements [2]
• Device agnostic
• Threadable
• Multimodal
• Rights, provenance
• Sharing/exposure 1, 1-1, 1-many
• Common serialization form (manual export/import)
Interoperable annotations
http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/
Use cases and Functional Requirements [3]
• Ability for teacher and/or faculty to create customized content and issue it to groups or individuals
– Rights
– Granularity expressions
– Repositories: object level metadata adaption/”remixing”
Use cases and Functional Requirements [3]
• Reflowable and Fixed Layout
• Ability to host rich content
– Video, audio, athe atics… – Multi-linguality & i18n support
• Ability for enhanced styling
– Publisher tugboat
• Ability to host interactive materials
– Including formal assessments Content: properties and features
Use cases and Functional Requirements [3]
• HTML5:
– Element vocabulary improvements – WAI-ARIA
• EPUB 3:
– Document-wide text+audio synchronization – TTS enhancements (PLS, SSML)
• Guidelines and Best Practices
Content: accessibility
Current topics: summary
• Communication protocols
• Annotations
• Adaption / “remixing”
• Basic content properties/features
• Content accessibility
Example from USA:
using EPUB and IMS specifications
3 illio users…
Stakeholders and current activities [1]
• IDPF http://idpf.org – EPUB 3
– Co-organizing workshop with Pearson in early fall – Open Annotation Collaboration this year
• W3C http://www.w3.org
– Digital Publishing Interest Group: OWP enhancements
• ISO SC36
– Information technology for learning, education and training
• EU eTernity Project http://etextbookseurope.eu
Stakeholders and current activities [2]
•IMS Global http://www.imsglobal.org
– QTI, LTI a d ore…
•IEEE STEM Actionable Data Book
•LRMI http://www.lrmi.net
Peter Tillberg – Blir du lönsam, lille vän? 1972-73
Thank you!
<mgylling@idpf.org>
