[Foundation-l] Board meeting report

[Michael Snow]

oscar van dillen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Brianna Laugher
> <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>wrote:
>   
>> 2008/10/19 Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
>>     
>>> Jan-Bart gave a presentation on open standards, which led into the
>>> broader topic (including file formats) that I introduced earlier.
>>> Jan-Bart feels that considering our commitment to these ideals - freely
>>> licensed content, free software, web standards - our projects are not
>>> doing nearly as much as they could on open standards in education. It's
>>> an important aspect of our mission, the standards often exist already
>>> and are in use in the educational community, and our impact in that
>>> world would grow significantly by working towards them.
>>>       
>> Interesting. Jan-Bart, what kind of "open standards in education" are
>> you referring to? Like standardised curricula, or something else?
>>     
> probably something closer to this
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/elpub-2007/ i guess?
>   
Jan-Bart can elaborate for himself if he wishes, but you could probably 
get some idea of it there, it looks like. IMS and SCORM, which are 
discussed in that paper, were among the examples he mentioned.

--Michael Snow