8/21/00
IMS ADL IEEE LTSC Aug 21 2000
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Is there a basic difficulty in
process?
•We are trying to set standards for an area that is still in its infancy and we have essentially zero experience with sophisticated web-based learning environments and
•Certainly no agreement
as to either educational or computing
architecture of web-based learning
•Not clear if people involved in the activity understand
issues and there is no very well defined
academic community for many important
contributions from different areas
•Example: Standards assume a “Client-Server” architecture
but this is not used in most modern web-based systems which are 3 or 4 tier – not 2 tier