Linking research & learning technologies through standards

Link Affiliates has been working this year on supporting the Digital Education Revolution, through the Technical Standards for Digital Education project. This project aims to enhance IT system support for the range of teaching and learning possible in the digital world, and works with the Australian school education community to create technical standards relevant to the Australian schools digital environment. The project will also provide mechanisms for the Australian school education community to influence the development of global technical standards.

The project is split into seven themed activities; further descriptions of the activities are available at the Link Affiliates web site. Because we blog about our work on the project, we have up a tag for each of the activities, which you can use to track them:

21st Century Curriculum Content: 21C Curriculum Content

Support schools sector use of “safe” web 2.0 content

Engage with W3C Accessibility Guidelines: Accessibility Guidelines

Build capability and assist the schools sector to understand the potential impact, challenges and opportunities the new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) could present for the Australian schools sector

Curriculum description: Curriculum Description

Support schools sector uses of machine readable curriculum descriptions

Lesson Plans: Lesson Plans

Support schools sector sharing of lesson plans

Learning Content Discovery and Exchange: Learning Content Discovery & Exchange

Support discovery and exchange of learning content between school sector systems

e-Portfolios technology: e-portfolio

Articulate key technical interoperability challenges for e-portfolios in the Australian schools sector and propose future work on e-Portfolio interoperability in the schools sector

Integrated Learning Environments and 21st Century Learning: Integrated Learning Environments

Support the SIF-AU project and articulate web 2.0 and service oriented approaches to integrating learning environments

Hi, and welcome to the Link Affiliates Blog.  A place were you’ll be hearing about our team’s thoughts on international e-learning and e-research interoperability and standards activities.

But, before we go there, I thought I’d tackle the really big question of …

Why a Link Affiliates blog?

Link Affiliates team members have been providing interoperability and technical advice to the Australian education community since the mid 1990′s. Traditionally, we have provided this advice directly to projects and consultative groups like LORN, The Le@rning Federation, the e-Framework …

We’ve always known that the conversations and experiences we share with these projects deserved to be shared more broadly through a forum like a blog, but have never done anything about it, until now …

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