Recycling webcontent with DITA
Lots of places and even people have a pile of potentially useful content sitting in a retired CMS or VLE. Or have content that needs to work on a site as much as a pdf or a booklet. Or want to use that...
View ArticleThe e-framework, social software and mashups
The e-framework has just opened a wiki, and will happily accommodate Web APIs and mashups. We show how the former works with the submission of an example of the latter. The e-framework is all about...
View ArticleSemantic tech finds its niches and gets productive
Rather than the computer science foundation, the annual semantic technology conference in San Jose focusses on the practical applications of the approach. Visitor numbers are growing at a ‘double...
View ArticleA test in learning widgets
In order to explore how widgets can work in teaching and learning practice, I’ve been blue-petering a one-off formative assessment widget. That little exercise uncovers a couple of interesting issues...
View ArticleIMS QTI and the economics of interoperability
In the twelve years of its existence, an awful lot has been learned about interoperability by IMS staff and members. This is nowhere more apparent than in the most quintessentially educational of...
View ArticleGoogle Wave and teaching & learning
The announcement of Google’s new Wave technology seems to be causing equal parts excitement and bafflement. For education, it’s worth getting through the bafflement, because the potential is quite...
View ArticleBlackboard pledges open standard support.
Ray Henderson, President of Blackboard’s Teaching and Learning division, formerly of Angel learning, made a very public commitment to supporting standards yesterday. Although even Ray admits that the...
View ArticleOn integrating Wave, Wookie and Twitter
Stitching together the new ‘realtime’ collaborative platforms seems an obvious thing to be doing in theory, but throws up some interesting issues in practice. Back when Wave was first demonstrated by...
View ArticleQuestion and Test tools demonstrate interoperability
As the QTI 2.1 specification gets ready for final release, and new communities start picking it up, conforming tools demonstrated their interoperability at the JISC – CETIS 2012 conference. The latest...
View ArticleUsing standards to make assessment in e-textbooks scalable, engaging but robust
During last week’s EDUPUB workshop, I presented a demo of how an IMS QTI 2.1 question item could be embedded in an EPUB3 e-book in a way that is engaging, but also works across many e-book readers....
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