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Standards from 2009 on how NZ government departments should design for the web. Includes a website self assessment page from 2011 and seems to use WCAG for accessibility standard.

"I was surprised to find while doing some research for a client that there is no single source where one can go to compare different quality standards for e-learning. So I'm starting a list here..."

"iNACOL has just released a revised version its standards that define high-quality teaching in online and blended-learning program."

Short (external) description of Mozilla's web literacy standard.

Does HE require minimum standards for LMS / VLE use? Post suggests students at least expect so.

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development

Technology Enhanced Learning - a quality standard.

ITinteroperability is a newsletter aimed at informing you about technical, standards and interoperability projects pertinent to education in Australia. It includes news items on local interoperability projects as well as summarising activity in international standards bodies relevant to education in Australia.

Opening keynote for West Yorkshire Life Long Learning Network's XCRI dissemination event, held 2009-03-27 in Leeds. Presented by Professor Mark Stubbs, Head of Learning & Research Technologies, MMU XCRI allows the exchange of information about courses between institutions and organisations using a standard.

The sky hasn't fallen in because Australia moved to an uncapped environment but there are questions about graduating standards.

Interesting. "We analyzed 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances collected from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers, who also took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, and age."

A map of competencies and skills that a group of Mozilla stakeholders (including Doug Belshaw) thought was important for getting better at reading, writing and participating on the web. Organised under three headings: exploring, building, connecting

A branded but fairly standard Moodle setup run by University of Capetown reported to be the kind of LMS portal that the new Dean of Management is very keen on (via Michele Schoenburger-Orgad)

Another case study of increasing teacher engagement with online teaching through a graded 'awards' system.  Going for positive reinforcement rather than a compliance model while still suggesting that there should be a minimum standard.

A UK FE college brings in graded standards to improve the quality of its courses.  Based in Moodle and uses some automated system. 

PIVOTE is a virtual learning authoring system for virtual worlds. It was developed as part of the JISC funded PREVIEW project, where it was used to develop training material for Paramedic students at St George's Hospital and Kingston University. Although based on the Medbiquitous Virtual Patient standard the feeling of all involved in the project was that the system could be used for any sort of structured learning in virtual worlds. The result was that JISC have funded the creation of PIVOTE - this open source project.

The University of California, Davis has stopped using Gmail for its 30,000-member staff and faculty body. The university was trying Gmail for faculty and staff with plans to roll out service to the entire campus. But school officials say the e-mail system isn't secure or private enough to meet their standards.

"We are developing dynamic Web-based maps, which are a fusion of formal curriculum maps, personal learning records, and community-driven maps. Using established technologies and standards the maps provide 'mash-ups' of information from curriculum databases, ePortfolios and other sources. The project aims to enhance understanding and navigation of the curriculum and provide a means for students to actively map, contextualise, reflect on, and evidence their learning. The maps will also support collaboration, including sharing, rating and discussion of learning resources linked to specific topics in the maps."

Metadata - an introduction! Free book.