There are many educational applications and systems in the market today. Thanks to the work of organizations like IMS Global, many of these can represent their data using a variety of standards ranging from those for content packaging, questions and tests to those for metadata and identity. These "data representation"...
At the present time the large community of educational systems and content providers and their users are having trouble understanding the complicated specifications world. To help in the understanding of this area, we can use a general architectural pattern and functional area breakout to help organize and give a context to this information.