More Related Content Similar to IMS Overview at BbWorld 2010 (20) More from Charles Severance (20) IMS Overview at BbWorld 20101. 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/
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3. 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?
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4. 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?
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5. 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?
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6. 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?
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7. 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
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8. 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?
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9. 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?
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10. 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?
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11. Advanced Issues for Technology
Leaders: Data, Outcomes
Course / Summative Homework ePortfolio Classroom Digital
Instructional Testing & Formative Technology Library &
Management Assessment Rich Media
Content
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12. The Role of Interoperability
• Enabling rapid construction and evolution of
federations of complementary learning
applications
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14. 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
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15. 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)
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16. 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
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17. 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)
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18. 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
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19. 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?
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20. 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
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21. 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
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22. 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
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23. Annual Learning Impact
Conference & Awards Program
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24. 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
25. 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
– www.imsglobal.org/developers/BLTI/
Steven P. Vickers
The University of Edinburgh
If you are impatient... 2010 Catalyst Winner
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26. 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
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27. Joseph Berkovitz
<info@noteflight.com>
www.noteflight.com
http://videos.noteflight.com/MoodleBasicLTI.mov
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29. Learning Tools Interoperability
• Open Source Building Block and
PowerLink
– www.oscelot.org
• Building Basic LTI Tools
– www.imsglobal.org/developers/BLTI/
• Sample Basic LTI Tool Source Code
– www.imsglobal.org/developers/BLTI/
Steven P. Vickers
The University of Edinburgh
Thanks to Blackboard for support 2010 Catalyst Winner
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30. Thank you!
For more
information
or to join in
go to:
imsglobal.org
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