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ePub3, also known as alternatively electronic publication, is increasingly becoming popular in the corporate e-learning environment. Imagine this – you’ve recently attended a corporate training course and have been assigned a job little later. Try as you might, but you’re not able to recall most of the content delivered during the training session. Thankfully, ePub3 helps you out with its ability to enable Just in time performance support. This format of electronic publication furthers the corporate learning aim of helping employees perform their jobs optimally by providing access to solutions, hacks, tips and tricks as and when they them.
Here are some other corporate benefits of adopting ePub3:
Better Accessibility
As far as accessibility is concerned, ePub3 drastically increases the chances of offering greater access, accessibility and functionality to its readers. ePub3 offers a complete range of semantic and systematic ways to enable learning for everyone, including the impaired readers. An accessible ePub3 allows content to be tagged with a variety of components such as informational, assessments and interactions. Multiple languages, formats and content types (tables, images, graphics, etc.) are the other features of ePub3.
Greater Traceability
Corporates often invest a lot of time, effort and resources in creating their training and learning initiatives. By the end of the training content creation, businesses end up having a large volume of data, in the form of brochures, fact sheets, research papers, presentations, and more. Manually accessing, tracing and interlinking these content items is both tedious and ineffective. ePub3 provides traceability feature that allows the learners or users to trace the content and access it whenever they want, wherever they want.
Improved Analytics
A training session is successful only when the trainers know how the learners have responded to it. Without timely and proper feedback, corporate training initiatives will not be able to amend or customize their content to suit the needs of the learners. ePub3 helps businesses gain reader’s feedback and analyze the end users’ response to the content, and accordingly alter the content for better productivity.
Even if the training material has its own legacy and style, as ePub3 is compliant with HTML5, it is easy to integrate analytics into the pages using JavaScript or other libraries. This will help businesses analyze the content, gauge the interest of the readers down to the smallest of details such as the time spent on a particular page or section. Besides, ePub3 also provides features such as surveys and polls to help corporates generate valuable insights into readers’ response to the training content.
Cost-effectiveness
The complete process of creating, publishing, distributing and enabling the consumption of content is usually very costly. The biggest advantage of ePub3 is the cost saving it offers over physical handling and processing of content including binding, labeling, transport and repair. When using ePub3, businesses and publishers save on the costs of archiving, circulation and maintenance.
DRM Protection
There are corporates that create and sell the training content to other entities. In such cases ePub3 standard adheres to Digital Rights Management (DRM) features. The DRM is essentially a security placed on a digital file that keeps the file attached to the account of the person who purchased it. This feature will ensure the security of the content as nobody can open the file unless their software or device has the correct key.
Final Word
ePub3 provides a host of enhancements and offerings that suit the ever-changing needs of corporate documentation and training standards. Most businesses today benefit from the work by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Features such as readability, global language support, traceability, analytics, security, flexibility and cost effectiveness make ePub3 a great choice for corporate learning environment.
