I can only stress the importance for the support of standards after attending the ELearningday yesterday. The CampusSource initiative is creating a pool for E-Learning tools, that range from an LMS to grade systems, content creation software and university administration system. Heidelberg together with us has applied for dotLRN to join this pool and it looks really good (though there is a license problem, due to the fact that the GPL version 2 does not comply with current German law in all aspects, version 3 takes this into account). The vision is to have multiple tools that are able to work together to create a customized solution for the university needs (best of breed approach). But at the moment the most important thing would be to make the tools apply some standards to allow data exchange (not talking about functionality...). From what I got so far, SCORM is the one they (Campus Source Guidence) have agreed to recommend to all tools, so we are on track there.
