Technical Vs Pedagogy

As I prepare for the Toolbox developers workshop next week the question of how much the technical specifications impose themselves on the learning resources we develop creeps into my crowded mind. The specs for Toolboxes are very specific and are designed to make the resource disaggregateable (or pull apartable) and operating on a repository - this SCORM stuff seems quite complex but my two geeks have a handle on - just want to make sure in the debates about learning that technology NEVER dictates to the learning that we are trying to impart.