Can e-book technology be enough to support elearning?

In this paper a model to track learning experiences from an interactive e-book is presented. For this a digital book coherent with the EPUB3 standards has been made by exporting an existing course in a learning management system and replicating its interactive behavior. Defining trigger points throughout the book and amongst the interactions made by the students, that send data to a learning record store, enrich the e-book and provide the possibility to analyze and preview statistical data for students’ commitment to learning the material and their actions over the whole course. The xAPI specification helps collect educational data and store it in a database, which can be used for creating a further set of reports anytime in the future.