RENAISSANCE

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Standards for Learning Environments
Kevin Riley Fretwell-Downing Education
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Contents of the Presentation

• Drivers for Online Learning
• Past Experience
• Standards Formation
• Key bodies
• IMS
• IEEE LTSC
• CEN/ISSS LT
• Gaps/Opportunities.

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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
Distributed Platforms
High-Speed Networks
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The Good Old Days
Problems
Past Experience

• Telematics for Education
• DELTA Programme
• ACTS, ESPRIT
• TLTP
• Distance Learning Backbone
• MIAMI DADEs 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

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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
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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

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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
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IEEE LTSC

• 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.

Proposed at last meeting Data Interchange
Protocols, HTTP Bindings, Content Packaging,
Platform and Media Profiles
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CEN/ISSS LT Workshop

• European focus
• DGXIII MoU
• Draw on international work
• IMS participate
• Localisation - culture, language, practice.

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At Sea in the Information Society
Service Selection
Referral
Service Delivery
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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).