Revolutionary Hybrid E-Books for Enhanced Higher Learning

TL;DR

This paper introduces a hybrid e-book format integrating audio and video to enhance engagement and reading duration, addressing declining interest in traditional and standard electronic books among students.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel multimedia hybrid e-book design that combines audio, video, and text to improve user experience and reading habits, supported by survey data.

Findings

Students prefer hybrid books over standard e-books and printed handouts.

Hybrid e-books increase reading and engagement time.

Survey results support the adoption of multimedia features in e-books.

Abstract

Books are the best friends of human beings and make them a rational animal. In this E-world our traditional books are losing their values. Recent surveys are proving that the younger generations are not much interested in visiting libraries and reading books due to their addiction towards the electronic gadgets. Many publishers are now changed their strategy by publishing and promoting ebooks. Academicians are also badly affected by this trend and they are forced to motivate the students to improve their reading habits for their better performance in the institutions and to be responsible citizens of a country. There are many difficulties faced by the ebook readers and it discourages the people to read an ebook for long time like a normal printed book. The main objective of this paper is to introduce a hybrid Ebook which is capable of having audio and video files also in it. This makes the people to read the e-book with modern electronic formats. This multimedia facility makes the people to read or listen or watch the ebooks for long time. We have quoted the survey results which prove that the students prefer to read hybrid books than normal ebooks or the printed handouts in College of Applied Sciences, Oman. Still we feel these books should have few more facilities, so that people who like traditional books will also adopt these ebooks, without losing the satisfaction of reading printed books. These things are listed in the recommendations and conclusion section.