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Wednesday, April 10, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6239 Standards Update: An Interview with Ed Walker - Emerging IMS Standards For many faculty, standards are a series of buzzwords that have little relevance to teaching... Recently, Syllabus caught up with Ed Walker, CEO of the IMS Global Learning Consortium Inc... . We asked Ed to reflect on our questions about standards and specifications from a practitioner's perspective.... EW: They really come in two major categories. One category is an infrastructure specification that an end user would generally never see or think about. The kind of thing that makes the clock run at 60 cycles. The second category includes those things we might call learning services, or educational components. The kinds of functions that if you thought a minute, you would realize that there have to be some conventions or universally accepted mechanisms to accomplish them. For example, to present a question, record an answer, or capture information about a student. More specifically, IMS is now working on a set of specifications for content sequencing—how one item of course content might follow another, including how that content might be made accessible to the person with some type of disability and how to arrange various learning objects and the content of test items. We're also working on how you might find a piece of content in a digital repository somewhere on a network if you don't know where it is. All these are functions that you would expect to exist, though you might not be particularly interested in how it gets done....
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