CETIS Quarterly Newsletter
Wilbert Kraan,
CETIS,
Oct 06, 2004
The second CETIS Newsletter has hit the streets, arriving in my email today, and although the formatting looks just awful in Firefox readers should bite the bullet, fire up Internet Explorer, and have a look. Author Wilbert Krann gets to the heart of things right away. "It is becoming clear that common e-learning activities such as searching and discovering content, taking a test, or working on a learner profile can't really be done by one application that has little or no knowledge of everything else on the network or the wider internet," he writes, describing two major responses to this: "one is that of a single platform, with a place for plug-ins, much like a flash or pdf plug-in adds extra functionality to an internet browser. The other approach focusses on enabling tools to talk to each other, with little presumption on what that tool is.... CRLFOne other trend is the rise of lightweight and open source e-learning technologies." I'm not sure whether this is two or three approaches, but my sentiments, for a wide variety of reasons, lie firmly with the last.
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