The Standard Bearers Close Ranks
Frank Tansey,
Syllabus,
Mar 07, 2003
In an article that reads like a State of the Union address, the author described the efforts of five major bodies - IMS, ADL, SIF, OKI and IEEE-LTSC - as representing "the collaboration occurring across the entire eLearning spectrum." I think that's a bit overstated. And I think, to quote George Siemens, that "What's needed is simple standards. Period. Right now, standard bodies are creating massively complex standards that are incomprehensible to the people who are supposed to adopt them - instructors/designers. There's a significant disconnect here." Let me be clear: it's not simply that these bodies are running too far ahead of the implementors. It's more like these bodies are staking out a territory of their own, independently of the implementors, and will now have to embark on a campaign to lure implementors toward their way of thinking. It's not going to be an easy sell, because it's not clear that what these bodies are producing is what the implementors want in online learning.
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