8/21/00
IMS ADL IEEE LTSC Aug 21 2000
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Basic System Model
•We think of web-based education as based on a set of distributed educational objects manipulated by a learning management system (LMS)
•This is already a little flaky as better to think of objects and services on those objects
•Further support for authoring of objects is critical and this does not seem to be addressed very well
–webMC illustrates this difficulty very well as its major contribution is to authoring
•However we can usefully study/use standards understanding that they are not complete
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