Standards used in POCKET
An important aspect of POCKET is the creation of sustainable Open Content that can easily be re-used and re-purposed. Therefore complying with educational content related interoperability standards is an integral part of the project.
In the project plan it was agreed that standards for the project would include:
- Accessibility standards: W3C WAI AA
- Moodle supports SCORM version 1.2.
- There is an agreed standard for metadata. This will be IEEE 1484.12., or Dublin Core
- RSS feeds are RSS 2.0
- OUXML 1.2: This is the Open University’s standard for structured authoring of material released as open schema through OpenLearn. This core format for content enables conversion to alternative formats listed below:
- IMS Content Package 1.1.4: Enables transfer to other VLEs, supported by CETIS as standard
- IMS Common Cartridge 1.1: Enables transfer to other VLEs, supported by CETIS as standard
- Moodle Backup format 1.9: This enables transfer to other Moodle servers and local editing of content.
- XHMTL HTML 1.0 Strict: XHTML compliant; Zip of all assets associated with a unit