Where oh where is plug & play?

E-Learning, November, 2002 by Gordon, Jack

The learning standards movement promises a dazzling future of reusable content objects. But right now, customers would settle for % * & !! courses that actually work with their % * & !! learning management systems.

In the long, hard battle to achieve common technology standards for e-learning content and administration systems, the first major goal is to achieve plug-and-play interoperability. That doesn't sound very sexy, as human aspirations go, but Sheldon Ellis falls asleep every night wishing that the industry would hurry up.

As director of the Buckman Laboratories Learning Center in Memphis, Tenn., Ellis is the top training manager for global specialty-chemicals manufacturer Buckman Laboratories. He would find it ever so much easier to deliver...

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