Standards and XML I
So we wish to move ahead and enter a world moving with Internet Speed …
But neither us nor the world we move in knows quite what we want to do
We need to set standards so that our infrastructure and content can be largely reused
If we start now with public domain or commercial systems like “mine”, “yours”, WebCT, Blackboard, CAPA then how can we do this so can evolve as technology changes
We could ask system provider to support “standards” but this is not very helpful if standards are insufficient
Educause IMS (www.imsproject.org) and IEEE P1484 are working on standards (which will be expressed in XML) but currently they seem far from being sufficient.