Stephen Downes

More coverage from the eLearningresults conference in Sestri Levante, Italy, as major companies outline their plans for standards compliance in e-learning. Microsoft endorses the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF); as the author comments, "they liked that standard so much, they bought its brains." Intel touted a peer to peer system with a lot of data caching. Software AG pushed the idea of elearning technology as a web service.