Since I complained recently about the IMS needing to open up more, it’s only fair that I should give credit when they actually do it. Chuck Severence, who now works part-time for the IMS, has a public test site up for people who want to test against a subset of the forthcoming Learning Tool Interoperability […]
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Secret Society Maybe Not So Secret
Published by June 18th, 2008 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 4 CommentsOpening Up the IMS
Published by June 11th, 2008 in Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentIn general, I am a fan of the IMS. I believe that we need interoperability standards in education, and I think that the IMS’s recent work such as the released Common Cartridge standard, the in-progress Enterprise Services v2 (now called Learning Information Services, or LIS) and Learning Tool Interoperability standards, and the foundational requirements work […]
Common Cartridge: e-Learning Made Easy
Published by October 8th, 2007 in Higher Education, Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management. 4 CommentsThis 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, slowly assembled into in a large conference room at the University of Maryland, University College (UMUC). […]
Thoughts on “Analytics” and Privacy
Published by September 11th, 2007 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Notable Posts. 5 CommentsLast week at the IMS conference, the LTAC (Learning Technology Advisory Council) had an interesting and, I think, fruitful discussion about “analytics.” In this context, the term umbrella term covers various types of data analysis that would be useful in helping ensure that more students learn more and better. One example that came up a […]
I was doing a bit of research on the IMS Tool Interoperability effort and I ran across this post by Chuck Severence. He was enthusing about the need for the developing standard—a sentiment which I wholeheartedly support (although I don’t know enough about TI yet to know how I feel about the way they propose […]
