A Core of Standards to Support T-learning

The possibility of transmitting interactive applications along with the audiovisual contents will turn the television into a universal platform to access the information society. Nowadays, there is growing interest in exploiting that potential to develop distance learning policies, to supplement the facilities offered by the current e-learning technologies. This short paper describes the implementation of a software module that enables the provision of educational services over interactive digital TV (T-learning). This module has been designed according to the technical peculiarities of an IDTV receiver, and resorts to existing standards to favor the convergence of all distance learning mediums