IEEE LOM Update
Phil Barker,
Phil's JISC CETIS blog,
Jul 24, 2009
There has been some discussion back and forth on the IEEE Learning Technology SubCommittee (LTSC) about the languid state of the initiative and the crash of its website (I guess it's looking for a new home). Meanwhile, the LOM standard has been renewed by IEEE (according to this report) which means it will be around for another five years.
Phil Barker writes, "The IEEE have now reaffirmed the LOM data schema (1484.12.1), which means that it continues as a standard for another 5 years.... We discussed Draft 5 of the corriegenda." Expressing LOM in the Dublin Core Abstract Model was not discussed.
Meanwhile, on the LTSC mailing list (archives do not appear to be extant, so I'll quote at length), Scott Lewis warned:
"The LTSC Web site was lost to a computer crash, I think, more than a year ago. As far as I know, the information that was lost has not been recovered, and the existing LTSC site is still subtitled "Blog and Temporary Home Page of the IEEE LTSC." Further more, I'm not sure anyone cares except members of the RAMLET TWG, which lost information that was not recorded elsewhere."
Christian Strake reported:
"First, the challenge with WG20 was that there was a very active SWG on Competencies starting after publication of the approved RCD specification. This work in parallel to WG20 has maybe lead to a standstill of WG20. It seems that also the SWG stopped its activities. BTW: As far as I can remember, Luc was at the LTSC meeting in Leuven (I think it was 2006) at least for the WG20 meetings.
Second, the renewal of LOM has been done and the approval by IEEE was given during the last days.
Third, the SCORM specification including the IEEE specification has passed successfully the second stage towards an ISO standard (as TR): The ballot resolution meeting by the ISO standardization committee SC36 was this March in Wellington and accepted the SCORM specification as submitted without changes or modifications."
Meanwhile, Luk Vervenne updated the group on competency standards projects:
"Now that also HR-XML has accepted the IEEE RCD as its definition part (version 3.1 to be announced), the WG20 goal is to ‘do the next step' which is developing a competency profile/map standard. Point is, there are many (new) competency initiatives, some of them trying to reinvent the wheel."
In fact, in addition to the IMS Work, there are numerous competency initiatives, summarized here from the Berlin Symposium.
Vervenne writes, "As IEEE and HR-XML co-chair I intend to promote any 'synergetic' activities with other competency initiatives in making portable competency profiles a reality. As such we would like to organize an EU event in the fall. Possibly joined by a closing activity of Prolix and/or an iCoper event, and possibly be joined by the emerging joint activity group between IMS and HR-XML on harmonizing employability data."
Phil Barker writes, "The IEEE have now reaffirmed the LOM data schema (1484.12.1), which means that it continues as a standard for another 5 years.... We discussed Draft 5 of the corriegenda." Expressing LOM in the Dublin Core Abstract Model was not discussed.
Meanwhile, on the LTSC mailing list (archives do not appear to be extant, so I'll quote at length), Scott Lewis warned:
"The LTSC Web site was lost to a computer crash, I think, more than a year ago. As far as I know, the information that was lost has not been recovered, and the existing LTSC site is still subtitled "Blog and Temporary Home Page of the IEEE LTSC." Further more, I'm not sure anyone cares except members of the RAMLET TWG, which lost information that was not recorded elsewhere."
Christian Strake reported:
"First, the challenge with WG20 was that there was a very active SWG on Competencies starting after publication of the approved RCD specification. This work in parallel to WG20 has maybe lead to a standstill of WG20. It seems that also the SWG stopped its activities. BTW: As far as I can remember, Luc was at the LTSC meeting in Leuven (I think it was 2006) at least for the WG20 meetings.
Second, the renewal of LOM has been done and the approval by IEEE was given during the last days.
Third, the SCORM specification including the IEEE specification has passed successfully the second stage towards an ISO standard (as TR): The ballot resolution meeting by the ISO standardization committee SC36 was this March in Wellington and accepted the SCORM specification as submitted without changes or modifications."
Meanwhile, Luk Vervenne updated the group on competency standards projects:
"Now that also HR-XML has accepted the IEEE RCD as its definition part (version 3.1 to be announced), the WG20 goal is to ‘do the next step' which is developing a competency profile/map standard. Point is, there are many (new) competency initiatives, some of them trying to reinvent the wheel."
In fact, in addition to the IMS Work, there are numerous competency initiatives, summarized here from the Berlin Symposium.
Vervenne writes, "As IEEE and HR-XML co-chair I intend to promote any 'synergetic' activities with other competency initiatives in making portable competency profiles a reality. As such we would like to organize an EU event in the fall. Possibly joined by a closing activity of Prolix and/or an iCoper event, and possibly be joined by the emerging joint activity group between IMS and HR-XML on harmonizing employability data."
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