SB106 EPUB 3 and the xAPI: Making the Case for Return-on-learning Investments
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Wednesday, June 10
New Possibilities
Unlike content silos, a networked ePub3 ecosystem supports the collection of experiential learning data from individuals and learning cohorts. This data enable production of performance metrics with return-on-learning investments benchmarks for individuals, groups, and organizations. In this session you will explore the IEEE Actionable Data Book project, which is leading the adoption and standardization of a personalized mobile learning, leveraging the full power of mobile computing hardware and next-generation eReaders. You will learn how the technical foundation for the ADBook project provides the modern framework for the structuring, packaging, and mobile delivery of accessible HTML5 content and scriptable components (widgets.) You will discuss how the ADBook project’s use of the Experience API (xAPI) enables mobile learning activities to communicate in real-time with other systems or devices.
John Costa
CEO
RePubIT
John Costa is CEO of RePubIT, an interactive eBook prototyping studio. A champion of digital media product innovation for over 20 years, 10 years of adjunct teaching at NYU and NSTC prepared him for entrepreneurial challenge of eLearning transformation. He chairs three open-standards committees: the IEEE IC12 Industry Connections Actionable Data Book Committee, the Book Industry Study Group’s Interactivity in eBooks, and ADL’s xAPI eBook Community of Practice. These groups advance learning and performance support adoption of open standard architectures. John’s goals are standardization of interactive eBooks, active widgets, and xAPI analytic data formats for advanced learning. Current experiential learning projects include real-time tutoring dashboards within ePub3, annotation sharing for field markup and quality assurance, and learning analytics correlation to business performance.
