Structured Methods

At LETSI’s technical workshop in Pensacola in October 2008, it was widely felt that Simple Sequencing had failed to deliver robust, interoperable sequencing and a number of proposals were brought forwards to suggest alternative approaches. The SS specification was perceived as being over-complex, subject to alternative interpretations, and as having failed to attract sufficient support from tools developers.
The demands for new approaches to sequencing seem to fall into two broad categories.
1 The demand for new sequencing functionality. Typical advocates of this approach are corporate training designers, who need to create large, complex courses for deployment to a single group of students.
2 The demand for more robust interoperability, even if this means simpler functionality. Typical advocates of this approach come from K-12, where content from multiple publishers needs to be re-mixed by non-expert teachers for use in many different contexts.