September 5, 2008 – 11:48 am
Our company has been providing search/discovery services for repositories for over 10 years. The first project that we were involved with was EDNA (EDucation Network Australia) - Australia’s gateway to education resources. Edna, as it is now known, is still providing search services for content that it catalogs, and also other useful collections […]
August 12, 2008 – 9:03 am
The Schools Interoperability Framework Association (SIFA) and Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) have officially announced a partnership looking at the development and implementation of SCORM into school software applications. SIF is a specification that enables interoperability between applications that you will find in a school system while ADL’s SCORM defines learning content. The […]
Virtual worlds are getting quite a bit of attention at work at the moment and for good reason. Clearly there is a huge potential for their use in education and momentum in this area is really building. Like many I have experimented a bit with platforms like Second Life but am now wanting […]
From the Learning Futures Eiffel team blog here’s a nice introduction on standards to consider for ePortfolios. It gives a nice summary of the major ePortfolio specific standards to consider and importantly, mentions related specifications such as OpenSocial which I believe those interested in ePortfolios should start to at a minimum, become familiar with. […]
Google, the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Sydney Linux User’s Group are hosting an event for the first annual Document Freedom day on Wednesday 26th March at the Sydney Google offices. From the document freedom site:
“The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with grassroots action for promotion of […]
From Stephen Downes’ blog, notification that the IMS Global Learning Consortium is exploring the use of Creative Commons licensing in its interoperability specifications. The press release from IMS doesn’t go into a great deal of detail other than plans to run a pilot project under a form of Creative Commons licence. It will […]
September 20, 2007 – 12:15 am
Some more news on standards. For those interested in SCORM, ADL and SIFA have just announced a partnership that will be looking at how to integrate SCORM into school applications that are using the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF). A new version of SCORM that is ‘100% based on open standards’ (called Core SCORM) […]
September 11, 2007 – 8:26 am
Interesting post from Tim Hand got me to thinking about this one. From Tim’s perspective, the standards arena seems to have stalled a bit (if I’m reading correctly). When compared to what’s happening in Web 2.0 with new services and technologies just powering ahead. Try to keep up with what’s happening in […]
