Paradoxes in LET standardisation –

towards an improved processTore Hoel

Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

Oslo, Norway

ICCE 2013, Bali, Indonesia

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A reflective practitioner(Schön 1983)

Paradoxes

1Open consensus

process …

… should be closed?!

2Openness may harm

the business of formal

standardisation

2No market for standards…

… but the business of standardisation is to sell documents

experts contribute for free

3Commercial market

should lead standardisation…

…but Industry sees no need to engage

Timing of standards

Sherif 2001

The standardisation process

Idea

Standards (maintenance)

process

Implementation

process

Specification

Implement-ation

Factors in the standards

development setting

Factors in the implementation

setting

Egyedi 2008

Case studies

•Closing down of a European pre-standardisation workshop

•Searching for stakeholders in a standardisation mirror committee

•e-Textbook standardisation – race for global leadership

Standardisation a «failing

paradigm»?Cargill & Bolin

2007

Shooting ourselves in the foot?

Scoping of work

Stakeholder engagement

Too closed & too bureaucratic

process

How to fix it?

Engagement of the market

•Market for learning technologies should be better understood•Complex, mixed & separated

•Educational Authorities (national & regional) should step up their responsibility

Standards development and implementation

are intertwined…

… standard bodies should therefore shift

their focus to also include

implementation concerns

Terima kasih!Questions?

tore.hoel@hioa.no@tore