I clicked through to find some more information:
http://www.elframework.org/ "The ELF is an international effort to develop a service-orientated approach to the development and integration of computer systems in the sphere of learning, research and education administration."
http://www.elframework.org/ "This page lists the software development projects which implement, provide adapters for or consume services within the E-Learning Framework."
It appears the general idea is to hook together components for e-learning applications through web services.
This paper is also linked but I haven't read through it yet http://www.e-framework.org/SOAandWorkflow2.pdf
Here is the JISC page http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/
