An effectiveness study on the preview of learning contents in ePUB3 ebooks

Abstract

In e-Learning, the flip blended learning model is commonly used to provide students with learning contents inside/outside classrooms. It encourages students to preview learning contents at their own pace outside classrooms before the class lesson. Thereafter, various learning activities are taken inside classrooms in the lesson with instructions/helps from the teacher. An important issue about the preview is its effectiveness because it affects afterwards the subsequent learning activities in the lesson. In addition, for an ePUB3 eBook-based flip blended learning model, ePUB3 eBooks are used in the model and hence the embedded ePUB3 track and test functions in these eBooks can be applied for tracking the preview accesses on these eBooks and examining the preview outcomes. As such, the teacher is able to capture the preview effectiveness (by checking these accesses and their relationships with the test outcomes) for making adequate actions on the subsequent lesson activities. In this paper, we explore such an effectiveness study on the preview of learning contents via ePUB3 track and test functions in an ePUB3 eBook-based flip blended learning model.