[QTI] Re: QTI 2.1 draft specification withdrawn

[Niall Barr]

The impression I got from Kevin is that there will probably be a fairly small set of profiles suited to different needs. The current situation is that there are too many variants possible by including different optional aspects of 2.1, and by restricting choice to a set of profiles interoperability will be improved.

Certainly, if everyone implemented the whole specification that would be an even better way of achieving full interoperability, however commercial groups are usually very reluctant to invest time in features their customers don't want. I'd like to see it become a graded set of support levels, so QTI 2.2 level 1 might be similar in scope to QTILite, and then a set of levels up to n (where n is a small integer) which would equate to full QTI 2.1.

I have to say, I was feeling very negative about the situation earlier, however after talking to Kevin I'm feeling really positive about the potential future of QTI.

Niall


-----Original Message-----
From: ims-qti-bounces at lists.ucles.org.uk on behalf of Yannick Warnier
Sent: Mon 3/30/2009 6:44 PM
To: IMS Question & Test Interoperability
Subject: RE: [QTI] Re: QTI 2.1 draft specification withdrawn
 
Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 18:26 +0100, Niall Barr a écrit :
[...]
> The QTI 2.1 draft specification has been moved out of the public draft
> stage because the feedback to IMS from people implementing it had
> indicated that there were too many optional parts, meaning that they
> effectively were losing interoperability by implementing different
> options depending on customer requirements. 
[...]

This is very similar to the way SCORM 2.0 is going as well[1]. They want
the standards to be so flexible that anyone can add their own modules,
thus loosing the interoperability.

Seems like they don't quite get the meaning of a standard...

Yannick

[1] Related (short) discussion:
http://wiki.letsi.org/display/nextscorm/Avoid+SCORM+Profiles


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