eBlog by Tore Hoel

International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research will soon publish its issue 8(2), which is a special issue on LET standardisation. Editors are Jan M. Pawlowski, Paul A. Hollins and Tore Hoel.
LET standardisation – framing the activity space using the JITSR special issue
The simple framework of Wand and Weber (2002) (Figure 1) could be [...]

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This post is my position paper for a CETIS meeting on the future of interoperability specifications in education.
Introduction
How do we represent our ideas, positions, and, for that matter –, our domain models or enterprise architectures? While the cool guys were still mostly talking to themselves, keeping the hang arounds at a certain distance, nobody questioned [...]

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The ADL initiative (part of US Department of Defence) was instrumental in forming LETSI, and they were supposed to hand over the stewardship of SCORM to the new organisation that wanted it to be the “mother of all future reference models”. Now, ADL has changed their plans. They still want to control SCORM. And LETSI [...]

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Could this standardisation meeting have been done better? At times, you would not want your enemies to endure the discussions in international standardisation meeting, not to mention the political people who sponsor your travels. Everybody knows that international negotiations take time and that consensus is a nice word which means a lot of work to [...]

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Erik Duval is practising open research in a fine way that fosters a much needed discussion on the role of technical standards for learning technologies. At his blog he shares the version of an article he and his colleague Katrien Verbert have submitted for review. I was sleeping and missed the chance to influence the [...]

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A few days ago I blogged on the Symposium on Competencies the ICOPER project and the proposal for a Reference model that was presented by Luk Vervenne and Jehad Najjar of the Belgium company Synergetics. I did not expect the strong reactions and hint that this discussion was raised in a wrong context, i.e. in [...]

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The editors of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 WG4 MLR Part 5 (in English, the guys trying to come up with a new ISO standard describing educational metadata for learning resources) are discussing how to model the top level concepts of Part 5 of this multipart standard. A few weeks ago the decision was made in Paris [...]

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The ICOPER Berlin symposium with the sweeping title “C O M P E T E N C I E S as the Common Currency 4 Learning Outcomes – Towards a needs requirements for competency based learning” last week came up with a lot of discussion; a number of position papers and background notes; an overview [...]

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The workgroup that is developing the new standard on Metadata for Learning Resources does so based on “identified user requirements and in a manner which facilitates search, acquisition, evaluations and (re-) use of learning resources by as wide and varied audience as possible”. What about the “accidental discovery of learning resources in online practice”, [...]

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I firmly believe that the modern learner needs more than one identity. So while we are waiting for the heavyweight systems to be developed (like the FEIDE system i Norway), we should implement lightweight OpenID in our non critical services and systems. Simon Willison is relentlessly advocating the solution - this time with 178 [...]

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