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.