Erlend Øverby - Blog

At its Wellington NZ March 2009 meetings, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36/WG7 agreed to this new title and the following scope:
IT-related standardisation in support of diverse cultures, languages and individual needs in the field of learning, education and training, and its supporting technologies.
And Terms of Reference:
The responsibility of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36/WG7 is to develop standards ensuring that relevant features [...]

The other day I was made aware of the blog of Martyn Cooper from the Open University in UK.
Martyn have several blog posts that raises some important views when working with accessibility and learning, education and training.

Accessibility and Learning Theories
Accessibility and Pedagogy in eLearning
Short note on: Acessibility and eAssessment

What these blog posts made me realise [...]

It seems that one of IMS’s strategies is to have their specifications put through ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36 for formal standardisation, to me this seems like a wise strategy.
It gives the members of IMS, and the ones that have already implemented the IMS specifications a benefit when the IMS specifications are international standards. If the spec is [...]

I was commenting on the ISO/IEC FCD 12785-1 document, and realised that I do have a hang-up on the use of “ordered” in a standard.
To be clear – I’m not in favour of the use of “ordered” – in general implied semantic meaning to ordering of elements is a bad idea.
If there is implied semantics [...]