On 03 August 2020 at 13:56 Grounder UK <grounderuk@gmail.com> wrote:

Keep it simple; iterate collaboratively; make it great!

I'll just remark that my thinking here dates from 2014, when a friend from the Moodle world remarked that he really would like to see a site on which questions were edited collaboratively. That presupposes some format decisions, at least if we assume that educational material evolves through a series of mashups, which I believe is historically true. 

So whatever the refinements (hints, scoring, timed tests and their security, conditional branching, drag-and-drop graphics ...) the basic planks seem to be:

* An agreed set of formats that can be reused.

* Licensing that allows reuse (there is a point here about CC-by-SA, that it gives credit to those who develop good content).

* Findability by topical indexation. In fact the real-world need is to be able to find in minutes material within quite narrow criteria, "next week's test". Complex searches, such as SPARQL allows, are implied.

What AW would allow, in particular, would clearly be the fresh dimension of language independence. Hooray: big win.

We should also note this: some useful multiple choice questions are considered valuable, and exam papers containing them are not made public. This is a loss for those being educated, and so here is a key OER angle.

Charles