Industry and developers

A content package is a file containing content and metadata and is a way of describing learning content that can be read by many tools.

Benefits

The development of an application profile, implementation guidance and rationale documentation will help content providers to create packaged content in a technically consistent way.

Schools and colleges could then be confident that resources would work across all platforms identified within the Learning Platform Services Framework and others that chose to adopt the standard.

Background

The work is being led by the e-Learning and Content Packaging Special Interest Group, part of the Information Standards Board for education, skills and children’s services. The special interest group will align the work of Becta, the Information Standards Board and industry groups.

The success of this project is dependent upon agreement between suppliers of digital educational content and related tools on an appropriate specification, supported by implementation guidance and support.

The schedule of project outputs and delivery timetable is available.

The application profile will be defined through stakeholder consultation by joint work between teams from RM (focused on project management and technical solution) and Edicts (focused on user requirements and stakeholder engagement).

Get involved

To take part in the consultation, email content.tools@becta.org.uk.

The project is due to run until spring 2010. Further updates will be posted here as they become available.

You can read more about the background to this work and the future work of the special interest group on the Information Standards Board website.