DITA Learning and Training Content Specialization SC
Completed
March, 2015
The DITA Learning and Training content sub-committee is glad to say that the new DITA 1.3 includes new support for developing educational content that meets diverse needs of education professionals. New in DITA 1.3 is better support for block content in assessment items and new support for learning object maps.
DITA 1.3 continues to include the strong support first released in DITA 1.2 for structured learning content, with specific topic types for learning overviews, content, summaries, assessments and plans. Learning maps provide for organizing and sequencing learning content into instructional modules. Learning interactions include support for basic quiz and assessment items. Finally, the DITA support for learning metadata follows industry best practices for learning objects.
John Hunt, IBM
Chair, DITA Learning and Training content specialization sub-committee
Additional background
These additional supporting documents about the Learning and Training specification are also available on OASIS.org, with Public access:
Overview and Assumptions
Sample content and readme for use with the DITA 1.2 schemas included with DITA Open Toolkit 1.5.
The sample content also includes a set of "starter-kit" DITA processing extensions to use with the DITA Open Toolkit 1.5 to process the learning content topics to XHTML, represent interactions with javascript, and prepare an imsmanifest.xml for use with a SCORM 2004 content package.
For additional background information , see the OASIS DITA Learning Content Subcommittee wiki.
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