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Foil 13 Re-usable Education Object Strategy

From Portals for Web Based Education and Training Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Identify types of educational objects and divide them and their properties into
  • a) Education specific
  • b) World Wide or Business Enterprise specific (Yahoo Netscape IBM etc. will define e.g. portalML, X3D, VML )
  • c) Particular field specific (MathML, ChemistryML etc.)
2 Find where good standards exist and use them
3 Work with organizations to eventually agree on important missing standards (as with IMS and DoD ADL)
4 Define in XML, the missing interfaces as <yourinstitutiontrainingxml> and insist that vendors either adopt these interfaces or define their proprietary interfaces as <webctxml> <blackboardxml> <iplanetxml> <oraclexmlportlet> etc.
  • Convert these temporary standards (either permanently or dynamically) to eventual <wwweducationandtrainingxml>

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