Tag Archives: Common-Cartridge

Lots of News in the IMS Standards World

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Michael Feldstein

Update: Scott Wilson rightly pointed out to me that the IMS produces specifications, not standards. This week was the annual IMS Learning Impact conference, and it brought with it a slew of announcements about progress on education-specific technical standards: Learning … Continue reading →

Posted in Openness | Tagged Access For All, Common-Cartridge, IMS, LIS, LTI | 1 Comment

Blackboard's Progress Toward Standards Support

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Michael Feldstein

Coming out of this week’s IMS meeting, Ray Henderson has a good post up describing the progress Blackboard was able to demonstrate toward support of the IMS Common Cartridge (CC) and Basic Learning Tool Interoperability (BLTI) standards. Sometimes it’s hard … Continue reading →

Posted in Openness | Tagged Blackboard-Inc., Common-Cartridge, IMS, LTI, Ray Henderson | Comments Off

Common Cartridge: e-Learning Made Easy

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Jim Farmer

This is a guest blog post by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull. On September 4, 2007, a summer morning in Adelphi, Maryland, the workgroup, breakfast in hand, … Continue reading →

Posted in Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged ANGEL-Learning, Blackboard, Common-Cartridge, IMS, Jim-Farmer | 5 Comments

Why Teachers' Unions Should Demand Support for the IMS Common Cartridge Standard

Posted on October 13, 2006 by Michael Feldstein

I just got back from the EDUCAUSE conference and man, do I have a lot to write about. I’m going to start with the IMS’s announcement of the new Common Cartridge standard. Now, I know that technical standards aren’t always … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital Democracy, Higher Education, Openness | Tagged Common-Cartridge, EDUCAUSE, IMS | 2 Comments

Patents and IMS Common Cartridge

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Michael Feldstein

A while back, IMS CEO Rob Abel was kind enough to comment on my post regarding the potential impact of patents on educational technology standards. As part of his summary at the end of the comment, he wrote, It’s difficult … Continue reading →