IMS Overview at BbWorld 2010

The IMS Global Learning Consortium:

Partnering
with Leading Institutions, Suppliers,
& Governments
to Create the Next Generation of
Education Worldwide

Dr. Charles Severance
http://www.imsglobal.org/

© Copyright 2010 IMS Global Learning Consortium
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Agenda

•  Education: What is IMS’s role in improving
education worldwide?

•  How is IMS creating the technical foundation
for collaboration across industry, institutions,
and governments?
•  Learning Impact: How does IMS focus on the
right challenges?


Global Education Challenges

•  Quality: How do we improve how education
prepares students for the today’s world?
•  Access: How do we fit educational experiences
to the needs of today’s students?
•  Affordability: How do we achieve the above
within the constraints of limited resources?


Example: USA
•  Historic New Investments Are Allocated to Achieve
Demanding Educational Attainment Targets
•  Can the USA regain the world leadership in percent
of population with college credentials?


But is Education Stuck?

•  Tradeoffs: Traditionally, the Access,
Affordability & Quality challenges have been
difficult to address simultaneously
•  Leverage Points: Where can educational leaders
have the most impact?
•  Critical Mass: Do individual educational
institutions or suppliers have the resources to
get to the future on their own?


Creating Leverage –
the IMS Approach
•  Educational Models: Understand the new delivery
models that we need to evolve to
•  The Role of Technology: Identify how technology can
support the new models
•  The Open Architecture: Provide the foundation for
open distributed educational innovation
•  Fostering Adoption: Facilitate collaboration among
leading organizations in identifying and addressing key
leverage points – through large-scale implementation


Agenda


and governments?
right challenges?


Trends Driving Change
•  Digital Delivery Alternatives: Courses, eBooks,
Ancillaries
•  Diverse Platform Support: Mobile Platforms,
Classroom Platforms
•  Collaborative/Social Learning Alternatives
•  The Explosion of “Cloud-based” Alternatives

Challenge: Can the educational enterprise keep up
with these trends?


Basic Issues for
Technology Leaders
•  Rapid Rate of Change: How do you create and
maintain an architecture that can evolve at the
pace of new innovation?
•  Platform proliferation: Can you afford to get
locked into the “platform strategies” of
dominate suppliers?
•  Return on Investment: Can you focus precious
resources on scaling innovation as opposed to
redoing custom integrations?


Advanced Issues for Technology
Leaders: Data, Outcomes

Course / Summative Homework ePortfolio Classroom Digital
Instructional Testing & Formative Technology Library &
Management Assessment Rich Media
Content


The Role of Interoperability
•  Enabling rapid construction and evolution of
federations of complementary learning
applications


Standards Core: IMS Digital
Learning Services
Common Cartridge:
Enabling platform-independent learning content and
assessments supporting a collaborative learning

Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI):
Enabling a wide variety of web-based learning
applications in a seamless learning environment

Learning Information Services (LIS):
Provisioning of learning cohorts from the authoritative
system and outcomes reporting

Enabling Interoperability for the Next Generation of
Learning Technology and Services
http://www.imsglobal.org/digitallearningservices.html

IMS Digital Learning Services
System of record (SIS)
Content provider web-servers
Course/section data Web-based
Web-based
Learning
Content
Student enrollment data IMS LIS Applications
Web Service
Student outcomes data
IMS LTI
Web Service

Learning
platform

Forum Initiation

Interoperability (LTI)
Content provider

Assessment

Discussion
Weblinks

(IMS QTI)

Learning Tools
download cartridge Course
management Archive

Runtime

Campus
system Course
Course
Archive Import
Common Cartridge
Cartridge Cartridge
Store Import Authorization

Cartridge
Authorization
Service

Common Cartridge Authorization Web Service (optional)

All Rights Reserved.

Specific Objectives for
DLS Standards
•  Cost: Reduce cost to integrate new applications and
to upgrade existing applications
•  User Experience: Improved integration results in
more efficient and effective user (instructor &
learner) experiences
•  Adoption: Improving user efficiency is the most
critical attribute in successful adoption of new
technology in the teaching & learning experience
•  Data: Enable extraction of richer information on
experiences and outcomes


Enable Content, Application, &
Data Interoperability
Digital
Course / Summative Homework ePortfolio Classroom Library &
Instructional Testing & Formative Technology Rich Media
Management Assessment Content

Common Common Common Common Common Common
Cartridges Cartridges Cartridges Cartridges Cartridges Cartridges

Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)

Learning Information Services (LIS)


Require the IMS Conformance
Marks from Suppliers!

•  Official conformance list:
http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/statuschart.html
•  Coming soon: Conformance for Learning Information
Services and institutional designation for IMS Campus

Agenda

and governments?
right challenges?


Collaboration Across Stakeholders
• 150+ organizational members
• 47% headquartered outside the U.S.
• the who’s who of global learning tech
leadership
Acquire products adhering • A unique leadership and collaboration venue
to standards to achieve
strategic goals
Education Institutions,
Districts, Systems
Government
IMS GLC
Organizations
Mirrors The
Market Set standards to
Create and/or Ecosystem

adhere to ensure progress
standards to enable
market efficiency
and opportunity
Product and Service
Providers

The IMS GLC Approach to
“Standards”
Annual Learning
Impact
Conference & LIA
Large-Scale
Awards
Adoption
Ed Tech Projects
Interoperability
Standards
Technical Adoption of Recognizing Impact on
Foundation for Innovation at Scale Access, Affordability,
Distributed Toward Strategic Quality
Innovation Goals

Purposeful Technology Innovation Applied to Improve Education


Adoption Projects
•  Procurement: How to ask for IMS compliant
applications and systems from suppliers
•  Retention: (1) Student induction to e-Learning
and (2) improving retention using analytics
•  Digital content: System or institutional adoption
of eBooks, online courses, or open educational
resources
•  Curriculum standards: Tagging of activities,
assignments, assessments, evidence and
ePortfolio data with learning outcomes: K-20


Annual Learning Impact
Conference & Awards Program


Digital
learning
Online
homework
&

Outcomes-
networks

assessment

focused

Clearly learning

superior Learning
Scaling
pedagogy

Personalization
content

&
inclusion

management

e-learning
e-classroom

Learning Edu
resource

Impact Good, but Lesson
e-planning

sharing

e-collaborative

evolving
Gain Networked

learning

Potential learning

environments

Cooperative

development

R&D
Gaming,
Mobile

simulation

learning

resources

Significant Manageable Straight-
Gain vs.
w/resources forward
Implementation
(All 14 project
categories) Implementation Challenges

http://www.imsglobal.org/articles/feb2010LearningImpact.cfm

Learning Tools Interoperability
•  Open Source Building Block and
PowerLink
–  www.oscelot.org
•  Building Basic LTI Tools
–  www.imsglobal.org/developers/BLTI/
•  Sample Tool Source Code

Steven P. Vickers
The University of Edinburgh
If you are impatient... 2010 Catalyst Winner


Certified - LMS
•  PowerLink for Blackboard WebCT v8
•  Building Block for Blackboard Learn v9
•  Desire2Learn Learning Environment v8.4.2
•  Desire2Learn Learning Environment v9.0
•  Jenzabar JICS v7.2
•  Learning Objects Campus Pack v4
•  Sakai v2.7
•  Sakai 3 v0.4
•  OLAT 7.0

Joseph Berkovitz
<info@noteflight.com>
www.noteflight.com

http://videos.noteflight.com/MoodleBasicLTI.mov

www.noteflight.com

Learning Tools Interoperability
•  Open Source Building Block and
PowerLink
–  www.oscelot.org
•  Building Basic LTI Tools
•  Sample Basic LTI Tool Source Code

Steven P. Vickers
The University of Edinburgh
Thanks to Blackboard for support 2010 Catalyst Winner


Thank you!

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