EDUPUB / ePub for Education

Semantically-Enhanced ePub for Interactive eTextbooks & Learning Content

From quizzes, tests, and adaptive learning, to activities and multimedia - interactive digital formats and specification like EDUPUB are most suited to Educational Content.

SunTec works with leading educational publishers globally, helping them create EDUPUB-compliant publications that precisely meet the unique structural and semantic requirements of educational publishing. Based on the HTML5 and EPUB3 standards, it provides a content model, structural semantics including "remixability", extended metadata, LMS integration, shared annotations, distributable objects, and scriptable components.

The use of EDUPUB ensures that learners get access to high-quality, scalable, richer and more interactive content that improves learning outcomes together with enabling digital educational content to be reliably distributed, consumed, and interchanged across a wide variety of devices and platforms.

1. Metadata

Educational metadata

Established on schema.org educational properties, such as:

Type of audience: professional, corporate, schools, etc.
Type of learning resource: activity, discussion or assessment based
Age Range: 5-10, 10-15, 15-20

2. Structure and "repurposability"

Structure of HTML content

Implement content that is well structured so as to have a reflowable EPUB
Promote the use of structured semantics such as footnote, assessment, etc

Accessibility metadata

Established on schema.org accessibility attributes such as:

Accessibility features: alternative text, print page numbers
Accessibility control: full keyboard control, full voice control

Why there is a need for well-structured content?

Well-structured and semantically rich content generates predictability for both humans and machines and it also facilitates remixability.
How a publisher can detect renewable objects in EPUB is defined in EPUB Distributable Objects specifications.

Teacher editions and guides

Capability to identify that an EDUPUB eBook is

A teacher's edition (representing superset of work that students are using)
A teacher's guide (providing general guidelines about the curriculum)

3. Scriptable Components

Communication application program Interface (API) as well as packaging for interactive constituents in EPUB
Effort to make it easier for publishers and reading systems
Incorporation of 3d party constituents
Enhanced security as well as performance

4. Open Annotations

Crucial missing element: format for interchange
EPUB Adaptation of W3C Open Annotation
The EPUB adaptation also facilitates bundling of annotations collected
Defining target audience

5. LMS integration

IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) and Outcomes

At present, EDUPUB defines Reading System Conformance and content requirements for LTI 1.2/2.0
Assistance for Caliper and QTI at higher conformance levels (TBD)

6. Utilizing other EPUB attributes

Navigation

The EPUB Navigation document used for efficient navigation for all users

EPUB multiple renditions

Bundling of numerous versions of the content is allowed such as fixed, reflowable, etc.
Examples: reflowable/fixed, multiple languages

Leverage Our EDUPUB Solutions for Developing & Converting Learning Content

Advanced features and functions
Economies of scale in relation to design, development, and distribution of digital content in EPUB format.
Consistent presentation across devices
Elimination of variant products for different platforms