WG1: Conformance & Standards
Background
- SCORM and other e-learning standard specifications are becoming popular in the Asian region. Accompanying this trend, interoperability issues are getting common problem with the actual implementations.
- With the promotion of e-learning, IPR and privacy protection issues in this field are becoming of common concern.
Objective
- To establish technical and organizational framework of conformance for e-learning specification including SCORM, in cooperation with the activities in US and Europe.
- To establish common framework in the Asian region in the field of IPR and privacy protection by information exchange and research about technologies and policies in the field.
2003 Activities
- Conformance
- Contact with and research about the activities in US and Europe
- Discussion between AEN countries about technical and organizational framework of conformance
- Interoperability experiment if possible
- IPR and privacy protection
- Contact with and research about the activities in US and Europe
- Survey about legal and technical requirement in the Asian region
- Research about related technical trends including DRM
- Through email : information exchange and discussion
- In-person meeting : one-day meeting is under consideration (before AEN conference December, 2003)
- Other activities (experimental study, development etc.)
2003 Outcome (expected)
- Conformance
- Report about the activities in US and Europe
- Proposal about technical and organizational framework of conformance
- Report about interoperability experiment if possible
- IPR and privacy protection
- Report about the activities in US and Europe
- Report about legal and technical requirement in the Asian region
- Report about related technical trends including DRM