The appendices list key Sun solution partners, educational institutions to watch, and distance learning organizations. The world's largest experiment comparing virtual realtime collaborative learning with its real world counterpart. Learn how the Sun Labs' Interactive Collaborative Systems group performed a long-term experiment with a group of over 1000 students from California State Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo, and California State University at Chico. If a school purchases a management and delivery system and another third party assessment application, these two systems need to work together. Similarly these systems need to interface to the schools Administration and Finance systems.
Standards are also important to the publishers and curriculum developers.
They need to develop their content to plug into third party web-based learning frameworks. The standards are evolving. Training Sun is a full partner in the IMS group. The industry partners can help push the specification through and help keep the process going. We are using IMS to point our customer base to, content developers, and the ISV' s so that everyone understands the issues and is working towards a common goal.