Tag Archives: LIS

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

Curtiss Barnes on Learning Information Services

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Michael Feldstein

Curtiss Barnes is Vice President of Industry Product Strategy for Education and Research at Oracle, and he’s also an all around smart guy. In his latest blog post, he has some more details on recent progress with LIS. It’s well … Continue reading →

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IMS Learning Information Services: The State of the Union

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Michael Feldstein

Regular e-Literate readers know that I am a big booster of the IMS Learning Information Services specification. (For an overview of the basics of the specification, see my posts here, here, and here.) There has been a lot of news … Continue reading →

Posted in Openness | Tagged Blackboard-Inc., Datatel, Desire2Learn, IMS, Inigral, Jenzabar, Kuali Student, LearningStudio, LIS, Moodle, Moodlerooms, MyLabs, Oracle-Corporation, Pearson, Peoplesoft Campus Solutions, rSmart, SAIP, Sakai, Sungard, Unicon | 3 Comments

Pearson Announces Support for IMS Learning Information Services

Posted on by Michael Feldstein

Pearson just announced that they will be supporting the IMS LIS standard (and with Oracle’s SAIP implementation of it) across a number of their products. First, they’ll support it in MyLabs, which are subject-focused learning environments (e.g., MyChemLab, MyMathLab, etc.)—sort … Continue reading →

Posted in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged eCollege, eCollege and Fronter, IMS, LearningStudio, LIS, Oracle-Corporation, Pearson-PLC | Comments Off

Jenzibar Planning to Support IMS Learning Information Services Standard

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Michael Feldstein

I mentioned here recently that SunGard has committed to supporting IMS Learning Information Services in their next release, making them the second major SIS provider to do so. (Oracle, my employer, has supported it in Peoplesoft Campus Solutions for about … Continue reading →