An editable multi-media authoring eBook system for mobile learning

Abstract

Traditional eBook is to put the content of a book from hardcopy paper format into electronic mobile device format. Nevertheless, with evolution of mobile computing, information can be spread in seconds by mobile phones in multi-media format. Therefore, a student may need to put his/her learning material in an eBook which can be accessed by mobile device so that the student can study at any time and at anywhere using the mobile device. An authoring eBook allows students selects his/her own lecture slides from teacher's power point files, relevant discussion from open forum, cognitive map from course concept map, and video recording from lectures etc. This paper presents a methodology that can let students tailor make his/her own learning material from different multi-media source, and which can be edited as students' learning level improves. The stepwise development procedure includes preprocess of converting discussion panel and mind maps into images, uploading document, video, audio and images into PDF files, concatenate PDF files into an eBook PDF file, and modify the eBook PDF files if needed. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.