IMS ADL IEEE LTSC

8/21/00

IMS ADL IEEE LTSC Aug 21 2000

Authoring Architectures

•We most importantly need to support interoperability of “content” – so faculty investment protected

•Typical delivered page consists of

–Actual Content

–Links to other content (Next, Previous, More Detail)

–“Decoration” – bunch of buttons accessing services such as “chat room”, “class resources”, “send mail to instructor”, WebTop Services (search etc.)

•For interoperability, we need to

–Preserve Content and links thereto but they will be stored and accessed in different ways in different LMS

–Map Services if possible

•Service mapping may not be necessary if each LMS has templates and model is that you extract interoperable content and insert into templates constructed separately

•Need to extract metadata as this is linked to specific content pages and typically not generated Authoring System