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“The Future of Learning and Performance Standards
Developments: Aligning our Educational Missions”
Chair: Dr. Fanny Klett,
Fraunhofer Institute Digital Media Technology, Germany
Program: 11A4: (Room A, Wednesday, July 11, 2007 16:00 -
18:00)
- (Invited) Fanny KLETT(Fraunhofer Institute Digital Media Technology,
Data Representation and Interfaces, Germany), "Advanced
Technology Standards for Learning and Performance and Their Impact"
- (Invited) Kiyoshi NAKABAYASHI (National Institute of Multimedia
Education, Japan), "Trends of e-Learning
Technology Standardization - Its Impact on Industry and Japanese Efforts -"
- Luis ANIDO (ISSN/CEN representative), Luis ÁLVAREZ,
Fernando MIKIC, Juan SANTOS, Manuel CAEIRO, Manuel FERNÁNDEZ, Martín
LLAMAS, David CONDE, Rubén MIGUEZ and Juan C. BURGUILLO (University of Vigo,
Spain), "Learning Technology Standardization
in Europe. The CEN/ISSS observatory."
- Kenji HIRATA (Toyo University, Japan), Shigeyuki OHARA(Tokai
University, Professional graduate school, Japan), and Katsuya MAKIUCHI (Information-technology
Promotion Agency, Japan), "Skill
and Competency Modeling and its Standardizations"
- Carla LIMONGELLII (DIA-Università Roma Tre, Italy),
Giuseppe SAMPIETRO, (DIA-Università Roma Tre, Italy), and Marco TEMPERINI (DIS-Università
“La Sapienza” Roma, Italy) "UNITAG:
Extending Moodle Functionalities to Create Personalized Courses by Means of Automated
Planning"
Aim:
This session features an overview of recent learning and performance standards and their
rising impact for research, development and societal changes. We will examine the interoperability
of learning content and systems, the individual performance and the results of learning
interactions with an eye toward maximizing an educational organization's investment in
people and technology.
Background:
Standards play a vital role in the advancement of innovation and technology. Commonly,
the development of standards points toward a certain process or technology that becomes
a technology trend and has reached a degree of marketability that requires a need for
particular consensus-based agreements. Learning technology standards are usually developed
to be used in the processes of learning system design and implementation. They aim to
ensure mainly interoperability, portability and reusability. These attributes shall apply
to both the learning systems and the content. An additional requirement concerns the metadata
that describe the content and are managed by the learning systems.
The hope is that widespread acceptance of learning technology standards will foster shared
resources among institutions and provide new efficiencies for program administrators.
Therefore, standards will play a larger role in institutional planning and program development
discussions in the near future. In addition, economic competition and employability are
in fact the key words all over the world. The main challenges of the knowledge and learning
society, the responses of industry to cope with them and the consequences for learning
technologies, indicate company specific qualification requirements and more options for
the individuals. Thus, learning performance standards move into the focus of recent developments.
Currently most learning and performance technology stakeholders have a vague notion of
their existence and utility. In order to illustrate the development and adoption of the
recent learning and performance technology standards, it may be useful to stress on few
points that are reflected in the main topics of this Special Session.
Impact:
Standards make learning technology interoperate in a global network. They contribute to
factors such as portability and scalability of the systems. Additionally, they can assure
better maintenance due to modular design and durability of instructional content after
significant technology changes. Educational content and learner information can be shared.
On the other hand, standards have also impact on the end user as they allow learners to
address target competencies and certification and help learning become more valuable through
making results portable and relevant to work context.
Main topics of interest:
Evolution of learning technology standards
The impact of formal standards for learning technology, accepted by the IEEE and ISO
The force of specifications: SCORM, and LETSI – the new SCORM stewardship
The power of competency definitions and upcoming performance standards
Experience from implementations based on the learning object approach and recent standards
and specifications
Discussion topics:
Have learning and performance technology interoperability standards and specifications
impacted on our current work?
- How do we enable users to identify, search for, and retrieve proper content?
- How do we provide educational content that fits to learner’s needs?
- How do we design and provide proper web-based assessments?
- How do we store and distribute learner personal information?
- How do we share and manage content between learning management systems?
- How do we ensure access to and accessibility of content for all users?
How will learning and performance technology interoperability standards and specifications
influence our future work?
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