Standards & Technologies for Digital Learning (part II)

If this is the first relevant post that you’re visiting in my blog, keep the page open and right click here to open the first post of the series before reading this one! As I already discussed, this series of posts came as the answer to my need for organizing some “things” in my head! Too many tools and technologies and standards out there for all of us working on digital learning, so I needed some kind of overview and a point of reference.

In the previous post I briefly outlined standards and specs for a) content quality, b) content format and c) content packaging. So in this one, we discuss metadata, interoperability (slightly addressed already through content packaging) and learning skills, learning goals, competences and the like. Maybe the original categorization is a bit subjective, but this is what comments’ sections are for! Feel free to drop a line with your view. I will be happy to edit the post accordingly to include your input.

Educational Metadata

Well, metadata have been here for quite some time. In education, we started working with metadata long before the first widely accepted educational metadata standard came out. To this day, most of the educational repositories and related systems, still utilize two of the most prevalent standards out there, DC and IEEE LOM…