Digitization of content is playing a major role in education. In comparison to paper based reading materials, digital content facilitates easy accessibility, is adaptable to user’s learning modes, can boost user engagement, provide real time assessments and also reduce potential costs. However, in order to derive these benefits, it is vital that digital content is globally accessible and interoperable. This is where EDUPUB comes in.
What is EDUPUB?
EDUPUB is an alliance global initiative. A community aimed at facilitating coordination amongst major standards organizations including IMS Global, W3C and IDPF. It is based on lightweight superstructure that makes sure, that all the existing and widely used standards sync as well as fulfill the needs of next-generation educational content.
Benefits of EDUPUB for various stakeholders
The Publisher
- Attain economies-of-scale in design, development and distribution
- Improved sourcing flexibility
- Facilitate consistency in functionality as well as presentation
- Maintain highest quality across devices and multiple platforms
- Evade overhead arising from unnecessary output variants
- Drive innovation
The Platform Provider
- Build features as well as support based on consistent and recognized content format
- Greater in-flow of content from publishers
- Expansion of eBook market due to quality products
The Educator
- Easy content integration with LMS, teacher to student and peer exchanges
- Traceable with the help of metadata-driven services, which facilitates adaptive learning
- Content can be remodeled easily by educators
- Evade vendor lock-in solutions, which makes it possible to retrieve content from numerous sources as well as deploy on diverse platforms
The Learner
- Responsive to user’s preferences, ability as well as learning styles
- Better learning experience due to rich media and higher interactivity
- Improved learning outcomes with increased accessibility and adaptability
- Better retention and understanding
- Applicable in all environments such as offline, online and campus
- Reduced cost
The goal of EDUPUB is to bring together all the major players in education segment including stakeholders such as publishers, educators, learners, platform and solution providers. The objective is to advance the adoption and use of eBooks as well as other learning materials through enhanced interoperability.
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