IMS Overview at BbWorld 2010

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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/


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?


•  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?

Example: USA


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

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




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

Summative Testing

Course / Instructional Management

Homework & Formative Assessment

ePortfolio Classroom Technology

Digital Library & Rich Media Content


The Role of Interoperability •  Enabling rapid construction and evolution of

federations of complementary learning applications

IMS Digital Learning Services


Common Cartridge: Enabling platform-independent learning content and assessments supporting a collaborative learning

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

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

Standards Core: IMS Digital Learning Services

Enabling Interoperability for the Next Generation of Learning Technology and Services

http://www.imsglobal.org/digitallearningservices.html


System of record (SIS)

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Web-based Learning

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Course Archive

Cartridge Store

Web-based Content

Content provider download cartridge management system

Content provider web-servers

Common Cartridge

Campus Course Archive

Common Cartridge Authorization Web Service (optional)

IMS LTI Web Service

Course Import

Learning platform

Student enrollment data

Student outcomes data

Course/section data

IMS LIS Web Service


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

Summative Testing

Course / Instructional Management

Homework & Formative Assessment

ePortfolio Classroom Technology

Digital Library & Rich Media Content

Common Cartridges

Common Cartridges

Common Cartridges

Common Cartridges

Common Cartridges

Common 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 •  Education: What is IMS’s role in improving

education worldwide?




Collaboration Across Stakeholders

IMS GLC Mirrors The

Market Ecosystem

Education Institutions, Districts, Systems

Product and Service Providers

Government Organizations

Set standards to ensure progress

Create and/or adhere to

standards to enable market efficiency and opportunity

Acquire products adhering to standards to achieve

strategic goals

• 150+ organizational members • 47% headquartered outside the U.S. • the who’s who of global learning tech leadership

• A unique leadership and collaboration venue


The IMS GLC Approach to “Standards”

Ed Tech Interoperability

Standards

Large-Scale Adoption Projects

Annual Learning Impact

Conference & LIA Awards

Purposeful Technology Innovation Applied to Improve Education

Technical Foundation for

Distributed Innovation

Adoption of Innovation at Scale Toward Strategic

Goals

Recognizing Impact on Access, Affordability,

Quality


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

Clearly superior

Good, but evolving

R&D

Significant Manageable w/resources

Straight- forward

Scaling pedagogy

Learning Impact

Gain Potential

Implementation Challenges

e-collaborative learning

Personalization & inclusion

Mobile learning resources

Online homework & assessment Outcomes-

focused learning

Edu resource sharing

Digital learning networks

Learning content management

Networked learning environments

Cooperative development

Lesson e-planning

Gaming, simulation

e-learning e-classroom

Gain vs. Implementation (All 14 project categories)

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 –  www.imsglobal.org/developers/BLTI/

If you are impatient... Steven P. Vickers The University of Edinburgh 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 <[email protected]> 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 –  www.imsglobal.org/developers/BLTI/

•  Sample Basic LTI Tool Source Code –  www.imsglobal.org/developers/BLTI/

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


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