What's missing? What do we need?

• A clear picture of the various incentive models which can be used to encourage participation in collaborative projects supporting interoperability for education and which will lead to long-term sustainability of such activities.
• Identification of the appropriate granularity and specification of the range of educational component types (e.g. exams, units, concept modules, exercises, applets)
• Models for the development of shareable GIS educational materials which address the issues of generalization, localization and technological change.
• A fully functioning prototype of a database of education components which can be combined into various types of educational "events".
• Mechanisms for structuring shareable education components.
• The creation of a huge volume of relevant metadata associated with education materials already on-line.
• Attention to the critical but still unexplored issue of language differences in the context of shareable GIS education materials.
• Mechanisms for quality control.
• Digital "wizards" which would assist in the creation of metadata and the construction of education "events".
• Efforts to learn XML
• A change in the education system which will support new education paradigms involving collaborative activities by educators.
• Dissemination of information about active projects and mechanisms which support collaborative and interoperable education.
• Information included in metadata which describe the context of shareable education objects, i.e. how is it to be used, what is the audience, what do people think who have used it?