The fundamental concept of eContent generated by mAuthor is based on separation of content data, its structures and look & feel from its functionality.

All the data structures that are created by mAuthor are built and stored in open XML format files. At this stage the data is independent from the systems, platforms or devices that it will be displayed on. Next, all such XML based data is dynamically interpreted by interactive content Player that generates HTML5 code which is responsible for its functionality and can be run in different operating systems or devices.

Thanks to this approach you can be sure that once a new device or operating system appears on the market, instead of adjusting thousands of your content pages, it is enough to make appropriate update of the Player, without touching previously created content.

We regularly test the functionality of eContent, generated by mAuthor and played back by the Player, on different platforms and devices and release new versions of the Player once a new platform, operating environment or mobile device appear on the market. This way you can be sure, that eContent you have created can be effectively exploited for long period of time and quickly adapted to future technology advances.

Currently all eContent created by mAuthor operates on  Windows, Mac OS or Linux as well as on mobile devices with iOS or Android system with various screen resolutions.

Data collected during students’ work with eContent brings completely new opportunities, that are not available for traditional paper-based textbook publishers.

The eContent created with mAuthor is capable to generate vast number of information concerning particular learner’s behavior and especially his or her results obtained while solving the interactive activities. All such information is used to give instant feedback to the learner, but it can be also collected in a general database which stores information of all learners results. Together with events tracing data collected by particular LMS platform it creates invaluable pool of information counted in hundreds of millions entries during single semester or school year.

All data generated by mAuthor’s eContent (and optionally also by Learnetic’s mCourser LMS) is stored in Google BigQuery database making it fully accessible by variety of third party tools (like: Tableau, QlikView, Zoomdata, etc) that enable you to perform thorough-full analysis and attractive visualizations of educationally relevant data.

From now on, educational publishers obtain the powerful tool that allows them to really assess the quality of their materials. For example, by analyzing interaction of thousands of students with particular activity, they can see how difficult it is for the students and make corrective action to make it more clear and thus more effective. By regular analyzing and improving of all their eContent elements publishers can perfect their new, electronic “textbooks” and make them gradually more and more intelligent and more reactive to students’ different behaviors.

Effective exploitation of these new possibilities will enable Textbook Publishers to gradually shift from paper-based materials toward highly intelligent, technology driven Learning Systems.

Although mAuthor gives you absolute freedom to develop any content functionality within your preferred “look and feel” style, in order to make the development process even more quicker and efficient mAuthor comes with the set of ready made  Templates.

The Templates define the general styling of colors, backgrounds, buttons, navigation elements but also deliver a set of most commonly used functional Activities ready to be implemented in your projects.

The Templates are completely open, enabling you to change and alter any of their parameters (Properties). By adjusting the Templates according to your style and preferences you may quickly build your own set of customized templates, thus making the development process quick and yet consistent.

Electronic content generated by mAuthor is built along with widely accepted eLearning industry standards. The created eCourses may be saved and exported as a SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 or xAPI (Tin Cap API) packages to any Learning Management System which supports these standards.

Once the new or updated versions of the industry standard are available we implement them in mAuthor platform and make them available to all its users. Such approach allows mAuthor’s users to make sure that the content they develop will be compatible with new eLearning systems and technologies.

All eContent developed with mAuthor is designed to be delivered online and accessed via Internet browsers. However, we know that there are regions where Internet is not widely available, so we have prepared a special application which allows mAuthor’s content to be deployed offline on desktop computers or downloaded directly into a tablet or smartphone.

What is more important the results of interactive exercises solved by the students are kept locally in computer/tablet memory and later, when the students have access to Internet, can be synchronized with the online platform on which the eContent was originally deployed(*). In this case teachers can have access to students results and can asses their learning progress.

* Functionality available only within Lernetic’s learning management platforms.

The electronic content (eContent) created by mAuthor is assembled in logical structures. The eCourses consist from eLessons (that can be arranged in chapters and sub-chapters). The eLessons are built from ePages. The ePages consist from variety of activities that are built form multiple Functional Modules and digital Media Assets like: texts, pictures, photos, illustrations, animations, videos, etc.

All eContent’s structures and data are stored in open XML formats which are latter dynamically interpreted by icPlayer and displayed on different platforms and devices.

Safety is a strategic issue for every company. One of the key benefits of choosing mAuthor is security that the investment in eContent creation is safe and maintainable in the future, regardless of mAuthor’s evolution or even existence.

That is why the mAuthor’s interactive content Player, that is responsible for playing back the eContent and running it on different platforms and devices, is made as an Open Source Code project. As an mAuthor user you will find all necessary source code files and its extensive documentation stored securely and fully accessible from third party, industry standard, software development platform.

Thanks to these facts mAuthor users can adapt the Player’s functionality to future devices, integrate it with different Learning Platforms, take part in its development or even create their own branch of the Player if necessary.