Publishing and Education Service On the Open Web Platform

Principal researcher, KERIS

Yong-Sang CHO, Ph.D

zzosang@keris.or.kr

FB: /zzosang Twitter: @zzosang

W3C Track, WWW 2014 Conference

2014-04-09, Seoul, Korea

Memory of digitalized textbook

In 2007 people thought modeling of the digital textbook.

<source: example of digital textbook, KERIS (2007)>

• Standard communities could capture potential items from user expectation.

Trials for digitalized textbook

2007 2013 2010

Functional modeling in application

Mobile and multi-screen on the cloud platform

Note: this perspective is not official opinion of Korean government and KERIS, but speaker’s personal division to give implication on the digital textbook in Korea.

Downsizing and met with eBook technology

(example textbook

on EPUB2 format)

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iPhone (2007. 6)

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Android (2007. 11)

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iPad (2010. 4)

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iBooks Textbook (2012. 1)

First challenge in 2011

What are the requirements for digital textbook?

Reference Materials

Learning Management

Assessment

Dictionary

Textbook (as a

content)

Interaction (pertaining

to annotation)

Web resource/

link)

Multimedia (AR, VR,

Audio/Video, etc.)

Note: people thought that digital textbook could be connected to resources and learning activities from 2007.

First challenge in 2011

People expected …

Unlocked Content on Device

Compatibility between Content and Device

and

First challenge in 2011

Note: See the proposal on the Web link of Standards research on convergence - learning and digital

publishing technologies for digital textbook;

Therefore, researchers of KERIS

suggested digital textbook as a convergence item;

• Digital publishing technology: EPUB3

• Learning technologies: learning software, assessment and online courseware management, etc.

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Powerful application needed to

First challenge in 2011

First challenge in 2011

Simple eBook format (EPUB2) needed to

First challenge in 2011

We thought convergence model …

First challenge in 2011

How to achieve advanced convergence model for the digital textbook?

First challenge in 2011

We thought about basic questions:

• Textbook and resources must be lightweight

• To avoid locking on device have to use open standards

• But how many standards are needed and how to mix?

First challenge in 2011

Idea #1.

• For base format of digital textbook adopt eBook technology such as EPUB3

Note: EPUB3 is core profile of web standards; HTML5, CSS, Javascript, etc.

• Main reason was while improve presentation of content lightweight and independent from device.

First challenge in 2011

Idea #2.

• On the eBook format use learning technologies such as assessment, learning software and web resources

Note: IMS Global has developed almost these required specifications at that time.

• In other words this approach looked like convergence between EPUB3 and IMS’s learning specifications i.e. Question & Test Interoperability and Learning Tools Interoperability.

First challenge in 2011

Idea #3.

• Same context but different delivery to user

i.e. EPUB for mobile devices and Common Cartridge for web browser

• Different packaging format can be automatically converted in terms of one source multi use (OSMU).

Two years later …

Won the Platinum Awards at IMS Learning Impact Awards;

• Adoption of EPUB3 to the Digital Textbook

• With Potential possibility to converge learning technologies; learning software, assessment and online courseware, etc.

Note: this digital textbook model is early stage of pilot project for EDUPUB.

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Note: see the presentation on the Web link of Sparkling Digital Textbook ;

DEMO

Current Digital Textbook is

Note: if you are reader on the web, please see the link; http://dtbook.edunet.net/st_renewal/file/Last_mute.MP4

<source: MOE of Korea and KERIS, 2011>

Current Digital Textbook is

Current Digital Textbook is

<source: MOE of Korea and KERIS, 2011>

Current Digital Textbook is

pursuing open platform based on and

EPUB3

<source: MOE of Korea and KERIS, 2011>

Current Digital Textbook is

standard profile set of

IMS GLOBAL Learning Consortium

Current Digital Textbook was

motivation of EDUPUB project from 2011

And EDUPUB came in 2013

as Global Alliance initiated by IDPF, IMS Global and W3C

• a comprehensive model for the interchange and deployment of educational content

• based on the W3C Open Web Platform

• and expressed as an integrated set of specifications including EPUB 3 (IDPF), LTI, QTI (IMS), LRMI and other emerging standards

<source: What is EDUPUB, Paul Belfanti and Markus Gylling, 2014>

Educational Profile of EPUB 3

Structural Semantics & Content Model

Assessments Widgets Discrete Entities

Outcomes services Analytics services Linkage to LTI

A11Y Metadata LRMI Metadata ARIA Annotations

<source: What is EDUPUB, Paul Belfanti and Markus Gylling, 2014>

currently working on:

EDUPUB is

You may find EDUPUB

on IDPF web site for first workshop:

http://idpf.org/edupub-2013-agenda

on IMS Global web site for second workshop:

http://www.imsglobal.org/edupub/agenda.html

• for the workshop report:

• for agenda and materials:

• and for meeting notes:

http://idpf.org/edupub-2013-report

http://idpf.org/sites/default/files/file_attach/EDUPUBConferenceNotes.pdf

• for the workshop report:

• for agenda and materials:

http://www.imsglobal.org/edupub/index.html

Current Digital Textbook will be

also adopted open annotation and SMIL of W3C rather EPUB3 specification to support user requirements

Note: coming Open Annotation in EPUB specification will fully support current annotation types of Digital

Textbook in Korea.

<source: MOE of Korea and KERIS, 2011>

beyond content itself; multiscreen service and analytics

BYOD and Learning Analytics

Current Digital Textbook will be

<source: MOE of Korea and KERIS, 2011>

And conformance testing?

Design the conformance testing framework for multi-stds

But, Keep in mind

<Gartner Hype Cycle, 2013>

Thank You !!!

Korea Education & Research Information Service

Yong-Sang CHO, Ph.D

zzosang@keris.or.kr

FB: /zzosang Twitter: @zzosang