Design and Development of Multimedia E-Textbooks for School Education in Nepal
Regmi, Chandan (2019)
Regmi, Chandan
Åbo Akademi
2019
Julkaisu on tekijänoikeussäännösten alainen. Teosta voi lukea ja tulostaa henkilökohtaista käyttöä varten. Käyttö kaupallisiin tarkoituksiin on kielletty.
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2019111237822
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2019111237822
Tiivistelmä
The digital form of textbooks as learning resources for school pupils has been analyzed and adopted in various developed countries. But Nepal has a low status of development in education and information and communications technology (ICT) domain compared to developed nations, which poses unique challenges to apply state of the art technology while creating e-textbooks as learning resources for school pupils. Literature has analyzed the use and efficiency of e-textbooks in the context of school education. Research studies have also reviewed multiple factors related to acceptance of the e-textbooks among school teachers and pupils. Even though the interface and functionality of e-textbooks have been discussed widely, well-established design layouts to develop multimedia e-textbooks are not yet available. This thesis work is early-stage design research to develop a prototype e-textbook system for school education in Nepal. The prototype e-textbook system is a web application to create and render e-textbooks. The rendered e-textbooks, which comprise a digital form of paper textbooks and educational multimedia, can be read via web browsers. While developing the prototype e-textbook system, a design framework on how to sequence, integrate, and display multimedia has been proposed. This framework can provide a way to deal with design issues of e-textbooks, such as making e-textbooks as familiar as paper textbooks and making their interface as self-descriptive as possible.