NelCon Studio: An e-learning Content Development / Playing platform for Blended Learning and Micro-learning

Abstract

There is an increasing demand for e-learning during the outbreak of Covid-19. Thus, the educational institutions stress the teachers to use digital educational tools to develop the lessons and share them with the students. In a context like this, consideration should be given to minimize the issues related to connectivity, accessibility and internet pricing since they are directly related to anytime/anywhere education for all. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop an e-learning content development platform to address the above problems faced by the users. Thus, the format of MP3 which has been the popular choice of Internet based music industry, is studied and revealed that it could not only carry audio, but also multiple images and text as well.  This compliance with the learnativity content model where an MP3 lesson can be considered as a learning object consisting with audio, images and texts. Consequently, the NeLCon Studio is developed with NeLCon creator and NeLCon Player which allows both the teacher and the student to develop lessons as low volume files which allow students to work online as well as offline modes