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Thursday, August 08, 2002
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134171 Academic calls for UK e-learning standard Rachel Fielding .... Professor Steve Molyneux is calling for the adoption of a national e-learning standard to allow study materials to work across learning management systems. Molyneux heads the Department for Education and Skills' Information and Communication Technology Research Centre, and is a member of the Government's Post-16 e-Learning strategy taskforce. He is calling for an e-learning standards authority to sit within the Office of the e-Envoy and regulate and test compliance to the standard..... Colin Steed, chief executive of the Institute of IT Training, welcomed the idea but warned that technical standards needed to be mirrored with quality standards. "It is as important, if not more so, to have content standards for the instructional design," he stated. "If content is going to conform to technical standards, but not engage the learner, they may as well read a book." ...
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