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Standards for Learning Environments. Kevin Riley Fretwell-Downing Education. Contents of the Presentation. Drivers for Online Learning Past Experience Standards Formation Key bodies IMS IEEE LTSC CEN/ISSS LT Gaps/Opportunities. Drivers for Online Learning. Users. Lifelong Learning.
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Standards for Learning Environments Kevin Riley Fretwell-Downing Education
Contents of the Presentation • Drivers for Online Learning • Past Experience • Standards Formation • Key bodies • IMS • IEEE LTSC • CEN/ISSS LT • Gaps/Opportunities.
Drivers for Online Learning Users Lifelong Learning Increased PC-literacy Employment Opportunities Education & Training International Competition Cost Reduction Growing Market Supporting Technologies Emerging E-Commerce Access to WWW High-Speed Networks Distributed Platforms
Telematics for Education DELTA Programme ACTS, ESPRIT TLTP Distance Learning Backbone MIAMI DADE’s SYNERGY Every man and his dog!!! Back to first principles - every time! Common technology but no integration/interworking Authoring costs Lack of publisher buy-in Bandwidth costs Market uncertainty The Good Old Days Past Experience Problems
IEEE LTSC CEN/ISSS LT, MMI AICC ARIADNE GESTALT IMS REM Standards Roadmap IETF Dublin Core DGXIII MoU OASIS W3C XML RDF? UK JISC IMS Centre NIST ISO 11179 BSR ETIS STAMP Workshop CORBA DCOM Multinational Corporates
Acronyms • IEEE LTSC - Learning Technology Standardisation Committee (P1484) • CEN/ISSS - Centre for European Normalisation/ Information Society Standardisation Service • ISO SC 32 11179 Part 6 - Basic Semantic Repository • OASIS - Organization for Application of Structured Information Standards • NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology • ETIS - European Telecommunications Informatics Services
IMS Focus • Metadata • Content & Management Systems • Enterprise Systems • Profiles • Security • E-Commerce • Conformance. IMS Centres: Australia, Ireland, Singapore, UK (HE) Version 1.0 specs due April 99
Architecture & Reference Model Glossary Task Model Tool/Agent Communication CBT Interchange Language Computer Managed Instruction Learning Object Model Student Identifier Semantics & Exchange Bindings Learner Model - PAPI Course Sequencing. IEEE LTSC • Proposed at last meeting: • Data Interchange Protocols, HTTP Bindings, Content Packaging, Platform and Media Profiles
CEN/ISSS LT Workshop • European focus • DGXIII MoU • Draw on international work • IMS participate • Localisation - culture, language, practice.
At Sea in the Information Society Service Selection Referral Service Delivery
The Gaps/Opportunities • Integration with libraries • Online information services • Remote search protocols • Collection descriptions • Flow-through from authoring systems • Directory services • High performance networks • AV services (MPEG7, SMPTE).