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Notes from Presentation and Discussion on RELOAD Developments - Phil Beauvoir, CETIS, University of Bolton.
Phil Beauvoir from the University of Bolton talked about the developments being made with RELOAD.

Phil is the lead developer on RELOAD. The intention at the development stage was not to create a "beautiful" interface, but there is now a need to create user-driven interfaces. One of the aims of the TenCompetence Project is to produce more suitable interfaces for learning design tools.

The complexity of RELOAD is due to the complexity of the IMS Learning Design Specification. However, this complexity can cause problems for the user. One solution could be to simplify the interface by creating different interfaces for different contexts, but this could remove some of the functionality that users may require.

Another solution could be to design templates, to which the user could add the features they need.

However, giving the user the rich choice of all the features tends to result in a complete but complex interface. So at present, this is a tricky problem to solve.