File Conversion in the Educational Use of Handheld Devices

The goal of this paper is to identify file formats that are used to preserve educational content and match them with file formats that can be created on iPods. Educational materials exist in a wide variety of file formats, but such files may not be accessible with modern devices such as iPods or iPhones. Services and tools that convert almost any file format into another file format can provide a solution to the problem of file incompatibility. This paper focuses on the most common file formats, and the list of references contains links to Websites where converters for any format pair can be found.