Forum OpenACS Development: Response to dotLRN and standards

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Posted by Peter Vessenes on
Michael, one funny from the IMS whitepaper is that I can see they send answers to questions in the xml that they're sending to be rendered. This is from their multiple choice IEEE question in the whitepaper. Stuff like this makes me wonder what the priorities are for the standards group.

I'm mostly just curious, since I am not an expert on SCORM or IMS, but I can't help thinking that sending, say MIT students the answers to their multiple choice questions in XML might not be a good idea. In particular, it would mean that you couldn't use a web browser to render this stuff, you'd need something a little more closed. And even then, a packet sniffer would let you get 100% every time.

What are your thoughts on this? Can you summarize the overall mission and priorities of these institutions? It would probably help me get situated thinking about them.