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10 June 2005 I Riina Vuorikari
Who is doing what?
Did you ever feel like listening to Martians talking when your colleagues talk about standardisation, specifications and conformance issues in a very acknowledgeable way? It actually doesn't take a rocket scientist to encode it all. See here some abbreviations and their true meaning. Next time it's maybe you who sounds like a pro?
e-Learning specifications and awareness raising organisations
- Vision: "Provide access to the highest quality education and training, tailored to individual needs, delivered cost efficiently, anywhere anytime"
- Develops SCORM (Sharable Course Object Reference Model), which is LOM compliant, and software to go with it.
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- Knowledge Pool System, a distributed database of reusable learning components for higher education
- Started developing LOM (Learning Object Metadata), which now is a standard. Also develops tools and keeps training sessions.
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- The Technical Standards website is a gateway to standards, protocols and specifications relevant to learning, education and training
- a Standards Sub-Committee to support a cross-sectoral approach in the development and use of technical standards.
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- The AICC has developed a CMI (LMS) specification that was used by the ADL as the foundation for their SCORM specifications.
- The activities of the AICC are targeted to the definition of software and hardware requirements for student computers, needed peripherals, multimedia formats for course contents, and user interface properties.
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- An accessible and sustainable web based repository that acts as a focal access point to projects, results, activities and organisations that are relevant to the development and adoption of e-learning technology standards.
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- Develops DC (Dublin Core) metadata for the description of educational resources
- Works also on different domains like library.
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- Develops metadata infrastructures to share and collaborate on the (re)use of educational web resources
- Contributes to the work in the field of standardisation through CEN/ISSS LTWS and European IMS Network.
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- American initiative that provides educators with access to educational resources (federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial sites)
- Application Profile mostly based on DC with some own extensions
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- Develops and promotes open specifications for facilitating online distributed learning activities
- Metadata specifications follow LOM, deals with content packaging, run time environments, Learning Design, etc.
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- Develops interoperable technologies (Specifications (NOT STANDARDS), guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential as a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
- There are over 40 recommendations published covering a range of Web technologies: multimedia, privacy, XML, and metadata. Maybe the most important is the Semantic Web initiative that intends to make the Web even more intelligent and more machine readable. The buzzword is Resource Description Framework, RDF
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| International standardisation bodies active in e-learning
- Internationalisation and availability of alternative language versions of LOM
- Description of language capabilities
- Quality assurance
- Educational modeling languages
- Repository of taxonomies/vocabularies for a European Learning Society
- Educational Copyright License Conditions
- Translation of LOM into various European Languages
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- A worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 140 countries, one from each
- The list of technical committees is long, very long
- Why? To progress the trade and worldwide communication, to assure the standards in emerging technologies, and also to secure that the needs of disadvantages (impaired, development countries, ...) are not overdriven.
- The 36 subcommittee of the first joint International Standardization Organization and International Electrotechnical Commission Committee (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36) was launched in 1999 to cover all aspects related to the standardization in the field of learning technologies. Its focus is on interoperability, not only at the technical level, but also taking into account social and cultural issues
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- IEEE "helps advance global prosperity by promoting the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electrical and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession."
- There is a Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) http://grouper.ieee.org/LTSC/wg3/
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Web Editor: Paul
Gerhard
Keywords: educational technologies, interoperability, learning environment, standard
Last changed: Wednesday, 29 June 2005
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