Learning Technology Standards Adoption Process Improvement and Output Legitimacy

In the context of a theoretical model on process and product legitimacy of Learning technology standards development and adoption proposed by the authors in 2008, this paper discusses recent activity and progress in the Learning, Educational and Training (LET) standards domain. In January 2010 experts from Europe and USA gathered in the United Kingdom to discuss the “Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education”. It is the presented position papers, case studies and recorded discourse from this conference, which provides data to which is used to test the validity of the model itself. The Process and Product Legitimacy model was found to still support necessary discourse towards an improved LET standardisation process, even if a new area of discourse related to Intellectual Property Rights was identified as not covered in the model and thus calls for further work.