A Model for Creating Interactive eBooks for eLearning

Abstract

In recent decades, electronic books have revolutionized the publishing world. In this sense, an area of application is education, where electronic books can be used as educational resources to implement learning strategies about content and in eLearning environments. For this, it is necessary to introduce interactive elements in the electronic books that turn the reader into an active actor in the reading process. However, ebooks have a limitation regarding their creation process. In this sense, the tools can be user-oriented or programmer-oriented. The former are intuitive to use and have user-friendly interfaces, but they offer a reduced number of functionalities to add to books. The second are aimed at programmers, allowing for the implementation of any functionality, but limiting the number of content creators who can use them. The main motivation of this work is to propose an intermediate solution that offers a wide number of functionalities while not requiring deep programming knowledge to use them. In this sense, the solution of this article is novel since it proposes the use of extensible markup language (XML) documents to specify the structure of the electronic book in such a way that its processing will lead to the electronic book.

Current attitudes on digital interactive fiction and text adventure games within learning contexts: A systematic literature review

“…Writing IF is even more possible in the present day with the advent of authoring systems that contain standard text editor elements that the typical writer would be familiar with (Sarasa-Cabezuelo, 2020). This medium has been further democratized in recent years through the elimination of a "need to code" base requirement, opening it up to writers without computer programming aspirations.…”

“…These two statements may indicate the potential of the text adventure as an introductory activity that leads a "tinkerer" into an eventual career as a computer programmer. Felnhofer et al, 2022;Gómez-Albarrán et al, 2021;Sarasa-Cabezuelo, 2020;Sauro et al, 2020).…”

design model proposal for digital learning platform based on interactive e-books

“…It is thought that especially IEBs will make significant contributions to countries in scientific, technological, and socioeconomic fields. Adding interactive resources to an e-book that will give the reader an active role in the reading process will turn the e-book into an educational resource where the learning strategy can be applied (Sarasa-Cabezuelo, 2020). Especially in digital education processes, applications to increase studentcontent interaction are thought to be valuable.…”

Livro didático digital no formato Epub: potenciais e desafios para uso na educação

“…Pela leitura das pesquisas e os resultados apresentados, ficou evidente que a necessidade de conhecimentos mais avançados para produzir e implementar recursos de interatividade, de acessibilidade, metadados e DRM foi considerada a dificuldade mais relevante para produzir livros didáticos digitais interativos, o que dificulta um processo mais simplificado. Entretanto, encontramos um único estudo voltado a essa questão e que, após a pesquisa, propôs uma solução intermediária que possibilita criar livros digitais sem a necessidade de profundos conhecimentos de programação (ARAÚJO, 2019;KNOLSEISEN, 2016;SARASA-CABEZUELO;2020;TOVSTIADI;WIERSMA, 2016;TURCIC;PAP, 2018;WU;SU, 2020).…”