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Foil 4 Motivating and Explanatory Remarks I

From Development of the Requirements for a Common Framework for Collaborative Learning Community Tools Working Group at CILT TLC Meeting SRI Palo Alto -- May 28-29 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Requirements can later lead to technical specifications and standards (as in IMS project), pilot projects and reference implementations
2 Framework will define requirements and not specifications
  • Compare with ADL which sets DoD training requirements and IMS sets consequent specifications
3 Requirements can include those for both interoperability and functionality
  • IMS focuses on interoperability
4 This project is not defining requirements for authoring (i.e. for content) but rather for the interfaces of content with educational tools
5 Rapid changes in technology suggest that content and tools be as modular as possible
  • This project will define modules and interfaces
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