3.1 eLearning Standards Today
There currently exist numerous organisations, consortia, etc., that are working in the area of eLearning standards. For instance organisations like the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the IEEE, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe, the Aviation Industry CBT Committee, the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative, etc. are dedicated to, or have committees and working groups active in, the establishment of eLearning standards.
It is beyond the scope of this paper to enumerate all entities involved in the establishment of eLearning standards, or the standards themselves. Instead, the authors have opted to make selective references to some of the standards, where such references are relevant to the ongoing discussion. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the core of standards that have been analysed and are referred to in the subsequent sections are the various specifications of IMS1, ADL SCORM2, and the AICC specifications3.