[QTI] QTI 2.1 draft specification withdrawn

[Christophe Strobbe]

At 20:01 28/03/2009, Colin S. wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I've posted this on behalf of Rib Abel (IMS GLC CEO).
>
>Colin S.
>
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>
>QTI v2.1 was under public review for more than 2 years and did not 
>achieve sufficient implementation and feedback to warrant being 
>voted on as a final specification. Therefore it has been withdrawn 
>for further work by the IMS membership. IMS cannot continue to 
>publish specifications that have not met the rigors of the IMS process.

Although I am not an implementer of IMS QTI 2.x, I find this very 
disappointing.
Moving back to IMS QTI 1.2 is a serious step back from the point of 
view of accessibility for persons with disabilities.
Five years ago, I wrote a report on accessibility issues in IMS QTI 
1.2 [1], just in time to influence QTI 2.x, in which accessibility 
was much better. Five years later, we're back where we were, except 
for the fact that there are now many implementations of IMS QTI 2.x.

Best regards,

Christophe Strobbe


[1] presented at the CETIS-TechDis Accessibility SIG in July 2004:
<http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/members/accessibility/meetings/2004/sig7/visualhtml>,
and described in more detail in a conference paper in 2007:
<http://www.springerlink.com/content/h1514825665t1k70/>.


>IMS GLC has convened a set of leading organizations to take the lead 
>on this new work - which will be considered to be in the CM/DN draft 
>phase in the IMS process.  Therefore, we are very encouraged and 
>hopeful that a new version will be available in due time, possibly a 
>QTI v2.2, along with the necessary conformance profiles. However, we 
>cannot assume that it will be a linear evolution from QTI v2.1.
>
>Until that time the only version of QTI that is fully endorsed by 
>IMS GLC is v1.2.1, that is supported under the Common Cartridge 
>Alliance: 
><http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/alliance.html>http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/alliance.html 
>. While QTI version 2.0 has been voted on as a final specification 
>by the IMS members, it's deficiencies are well known and IMS does 
>not recommend implementation of it.
>
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