A revolution in the sharing of knowledge…
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Standards Incorporate Consensus and Create Value (continued)
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e-Knowledge Standards and Specifications Organizations (indicative list - continued) |
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| IEEE LTSC |
Institute for Electronic & Electrical
Engineers Learning Technology Standards Committee |
Development of distributed learning architecture that services US online instructional requirements, particularly for military and paramilitary stakeholders. Key output has been the collection of specifications known as SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model). | |||
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| IMS |
IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. |
Develops and promotes open specifications for facilitating online distributed learning activities (e.g., managing modular educational content, tracking learner progress, reporting learner performance, and exchanging student records between administrative systems). Its key overall focus is the specification of interoperable systems that support e-learning. | |||
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| ISO/IEC JTC1-SC36 |
Advanced Learning Infrastructure Consortium |
Consortium of public and private organizations focused on the development and promotion of e-learning infrastructure in Japan. | |||
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| CEN/ISSS WS-LT |
International Standards Organization/
International Electrotechnical Committee Joint Technical Committee
1 (Information Technology), Subcommittee 36: Standards for Learning,
Education, and Training |
JTC1-SC36 serves as the pre-eminent formal international forum for standards development in information technology for learning, education, and training to support individuals, groups, or organizations, and to enable interoperability and reusability of resources and tools. | |||
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| OASIS |
Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards |
Non-profit global consortium developing and promoting adoption of interoperable e-business standards covering areas such as security, Web services, business transactions, electronic publishing, and topic maps. Over 400 corporate and individual members in 100 countries around the world. OASIS and the United Nations jointly sponsor ebXML, a global framework for e-business data exchange. | |||
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| OKI |
Open Knowledge Initiative |
A consortium of higher education institutions developing an architecture which identifies points of interoperability. | |||
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| OeBF |
Open eBook Forum |
International consortium of publishers developing a suite of specifications for electronic publishing that will assist particularly in the management of publisher property rights for electronic books. | |||
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| SIF |
Schools Interoperability Framework |
A broad consortium of vendors formed under the auspices of the (US) Software and Information Industry Association. Its focus is in the specification of enterprise software systems that manage student, staff, and class information, resource planning, and records portability, including financial and library services. | |||
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| W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
Develops specifications aimed at producing industry (XML-based) standard vocabularies relevant to human resources (e.g., recruitment, staffing, competencies). | |||
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| WfMC |
Workflow Management Coalition |
The WfMC is an international coalition of vendors, users, and researchers with a mission to promote and develop interoperable workflow software systems and products. | |||
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