A three stage pipeline extracts, transcodes and republishes legacy e-learning content for mobile devices.
Universities accumulate course material the way attics accumulate boxes. Lecture recordings, slide decks and interactive packages pile up over the years, built for whatever computer was standard at the time.
The problem is that most of that content was authored for a personal computer. A composite package that mixes video, slides and animation may simply not open on a phone, which is the device most students actually carry.
The proposed method takes old composite e-learning content and prepares it for mobile delivery in three stages.
The team ran the pipeline on composite content built with Microsoft Producer. Extraction succeeded on all of the sample content, and the regenerated material was accessible from the mobile application. A usability test returned an acceptance score of 94%.
The appeal of this approach is that it does not ask anyone to rewrite old course material. It treats existing content as an asset and adds a conversion layer in front of it, which is usually far cheaper than starting over.
Herman Toile, Kohei Arai, and Aryo Pinandito (2014). Adaptation of composite E-Learning contents for reusable in smartphone based learning system. 2014 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems.
