IT HIGHER EDUCATION STANDARDS, ISO, OPEN UNIVERSITY, E-LEARNING
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
E LEARNING is to a large extent all about standards, and universities involved in developing electronic services need to be aware of what guidelines are available and useful. At a very basic level, they could not use the Internet at all without the common technical rules used by all computers working the web, from IP protocols to voltage and plug shapes.
Britain's Open University is keen on standards, although not necessarily formal ones such as those developed by the International Organisation for Standardisation - ISO. The OU is, for ...
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