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A connected e-learning framework for engineering education
Published in Ataur Rahman, Vojislav Ilic, Blended Learning in Engineering Education, 2018
The overarching tenet in an improved ecosystem for connected learning is connectivity with other elements of the ecosystem. At the center of the ADBook learning ecosystem is a content consumer (learner) who uses a mobile device to launch the ADBook with the intention or need to learn (see Fig. 5.3). On the left side of the figure, the digital content producers (authors, publishers, knowledge experts and the like) store in open educational repositories their previously EPUB 3 encoded, formatted and packaged content. The EPUB 3 format is an advance over more traditional forms of connectivity, like portable document format (PDF). We believe that there is an opportunity to extend the paradigm initialized with the EPUB 3 format even further so that connectivity is leveraged to the fullest degree in an ecosystem which permits both standalone and connected use, whichever suits the user within the particular time and place of use (Arenas et al., 2016).
Text in Multimedia
Published in Sreeparna Banerjee, Elements of Multimedia, 2019
ePub is a widely adopted, open source standard for electronic books (ebooks). Distribution and interchange format standards for digital publications and documents are based on Web standards, providing a means of representing, packaging, and encoding structured and semantically enhanced Web content, including XHTML, CSS, SVG, images, and other resources for distribution in a single-file format.
Learning advanced engineering online: from distance delivery to online learning of finite element analysis
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Keith Martin, Andrew Cupples, Shahram Taherzadeh
Other outputs are also provided to students – PDF documents for accessibility and E-reader files (both .mobi and .epub) for delivery via a variety of external devices used by students these days. The challenge is to have a single source document or file which can be accessed via all regular means and still correctly display all mathematical equations, symbols, animations, graphics, video files, etc. as intended by the academic authors. Despite these difficulties, there are clear advantages in online presentation and delivery of teaching material for both students and suppliers of education in FEA.
Access to all components of scanned mathematical documents by vision-impaired students
Published in Assistive Technology, 2018
Azadeh Nazemi, Chandrika Fernando, Iain Murray, David. A McMeekin
In contrast with image-based mathematical expressions, Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is a markup language designed to display equations (e.g., fractions, square roots, matrices, bounded integrals on the Web and in other formats such as EPUB). The application developed by this research renders mathematical expressions presented by MathML and generates plain text for screen readers. However, results of accessing and rendering MathML is totally different.