Emerging Specifications
For a number of years, various organizations
have been working on different aspects of web-based learning technology,
developing specifications to enhance effectiveness and to help
vendors and practitioners to create products and materials.
Appropriately, each specifications
consortium concentrates on addressing the needs of their constituents.
But as a result, their efforts have often not been well connected
to one another.
Some emerging specifications have been
quite broadly focused, going beyond web-based learning to encompass
other domains such as interactive multimedia. Others had their
origins in earlier technologies and require some retooling for
a web-based world. |

Specifications groups have different and
sometimes overlapping focus.
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