Organizational Update:The Next IMS/GLC
Ed WalkerNLII 2005
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Success Means - Learning is …• Convenient: “easy to use” - low end-user effort to access,
use, etc. - think Amazon front-end
• Effective: “does what I want” - meets learner/teacher
objectives for learning outcomes; meets learning provider
objectives for learning outcomes and volume of usage
• Affordable: “reasonable cost/benefit” - meets learning
supplier objectives for acquisition, installation, and
maintenance cost/benefit; meets learner/teacher objectives
for time and effort viz outcome
• Profitable: “successful business” - meets supplier business
objectives for market size, production cost, margins, etc.
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Released specifications1. Meta-data v 1.2.12. Content Packaging v 1.1.43. Question and Test v 1.2.14. Learner Information v 1.0.15. Enterprise v 1.16. Simple Sequencing v 1.07. Learning Design v 1.08. Digital Repositories v 1.09. Competencies v 1.010. Accessibility for LIP v 1.011. Vocabulary Definitions v1.012. Shareable State Persistence v1.013. Enterprise Services v1.0 14. Resource List Interoperability v1.015. AccessforAll Meta-data v1.0
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DownloadsSpecification Downloads 1 Jan Š 31 Dec 2004
Question and Test 44,041 Content Packaging 32,510 Meta-data 30,801 Accessibility 18,766 Learner Information Package 16,881 Enterprise 16,231 Learning Design 13,303 Simple Sequencing 10,291 Handbooks 9,850 VDEX 8,172 Enterprise Services 6,061 Digital Repositories 5,484 RDCEO 5,331 Abstract Framework 3,832 Shareable State Persistence 2,470 Resource List Interoperability 1,731 EPortfolio 310
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Activities
• Communications
— Newsletters
— Member Website - Forums/Collaboration
— Public Website
• Member Activities
— Member Surveys
— Quarterly Meetings
— Technical Exchanges
— Open Technical Forums
• Project Management
• Document Production
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Results
IEEE
SCORM
SIF
IMS/GLC
Metadata, CP
LIP
Competencies
QTI
Simple Sequencing Content
Packaging
BSI
SIFA
NCAM
HR/XML
DCMI,W3CACC
ADL
Metadata
eGIF
CP, QTI, LIP,Ent, LD, SS, RDCEO
SakaiACC, QTI
Sharable State
EDSLIP
ISOACC
ELFFramework
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Non-financial Equity
• Body of work products
• P roven processes
• Contributing Members (49)
• Board of Directors
• Staff
• Affiliates
• Relationships
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Renewed Vision and Objectives• Consolidated by IMS/GLC Board
— Board meetings Sept 2003, March 2004, July 2004
— Planning meetings Sept 2004, Jan 2005 (with facilitator)
• Input by IMS/GLC members, affiliates, and others— Meetings: alt-I-lab 2003; Anaheim (Oct 2003); Zurich,
Amsterdam, London (Feb 2004); alt-I-lab 2004
— Survey of members: Fall 2003
— Facilitated interviews/surveys: June-July 2004
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Elements of 2005 Plan
• Destination
—Vision, Mission, Goals
• Map and compass
—Objectives, tasks and schedules
• Dials and gauges
—Milestone deliverables, metrics of progress
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Vision
Convenient,
effective, affordable, and profitable
learning
is available to every learner and teacher in
the world.
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Mission
To promote the development of global
distributed learning by facilitating and
leading cooperative and collaborative efforts
to develop, evolve and use advanced
distributed learning environments
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Goals
Serve vendors, buyers, and the community
of practice to a high professional standard
of effectiveness and efficiency.
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Objectives
• Remove technical problems slowing adoption
• Content and tool interoperability, tools, techniques
• Facilitate implementation by users
• Compliance, communication forums
• Increase marketplace acceptance and demand
• Open Technical Forums, alt-i-lab
• Maintain on-going processes and activities
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General Metrics
• Economic impact—Profit margins/acquisition cost
—Product lifetime/life cycle cost
—Overall production cost and cost of use
• Policy/Program Impact—Learner/Teacher goals (number, type)
—Quality goals (test scores, employment)
—“Market share”
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Measures of Progress
• Scenarios (from critical use cases)—Implementation: functional requirements, acceptance
test, cost/benefit outcomes
—Development: UML Models, system design, performance
metrics, interoperability reqs, product testing
• Implementation milestones—TBD examples - eGIF, SCORM, Sakai, SIF, 1M teachers,
20M learners, sales/use targets, etc.
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External Metrics
Interoperable assessment
and data managementDistributed
Repositoryinteroperability
Integrated instruction & assessment
Flexible author-ing, review, & distribution in the hands of
professionals
Life long learning for
anyone anywhere anytime
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
Growth in Overall Function
Annual Demonstrator and Implementation Milestones
ProductsAdoptionsAwareness
etc
ProductsAdoptionsAwareness
etc
ProductsAdoptionsAwareness
etc
ProductsAdoptionsAwareness
etc
ProductsAdoptionsAwareness
etc
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Fulfilling the IMS/GLC Role
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Task breakdown
Website and Support Staff
Applications Content
Infrastructure
Development
Tools and Techniques Community Devel.
Testing
Implementation
IMS Members andAffiliates
World-wide eLearningCommunity
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Spec Development
•In Process— QTI (item) v2
— General Web Services
— ePortfolio
— Meta-data v1.3
— CP v1.1.4 update
•Other Activities— Packaged versions of IMS specifications
— Review completed: SS & LIP/ACCLIP
— Evaluated binding automation
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Timeline
• February - (Melbourne)
• May - US
• alt-i-lab 2005 - UK
• November - North America
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IMS TB Work Programme
Assessment Authoring
Tool Interoperability
UML
WSDL/XSD Autogeneration
Use-case Repository
Technique & Tools
Service/Interface Definition
Content Packaging Data Model
Packaging
Web Services
Abstract Framework
Common Service OSIDs
Infrastructure
IMS TB Work Programme
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Tool Interoperability
• Goal – achieve “on the wire” runtime
interoperability
• Metric – value to educators at the chalk-
face
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Tool Interoperability Approach• Select a “value-add” tool
• Target two or more Learning Environments
• Define functional scope of interaction
• Agree technical tasks
• Do it
• Document and communicate how it was
done
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Tools Interoperability Outputs
• Recommendations for working practice
• Example code extracts
• An interoperable tool
• Two or more “tool ready” Learning
Environments
• Demonstration of tool interoperability at
Alt-I-Lab 2005
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Packaging Consolidation - I
• Types of packages—Learning materials
—Composite object e.g. ePortfolio, QTI Assessment, LIP records, etc.
—Collections of composite objects e.g. QTI Items, LIP records, etc.
• Service model for packaging—Service interface definition cf. OSIDs
—Binding to web-services using IMS GWS
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Packaging Consolidation- 2
• Data model clean-up
—Sub-manifests
—Alternative resources
—External meta-data & metadata aggregation
—Table of contents only
—…
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Packaging Consolidation - 3
• Specification integration phase 1
—Content Packaging
—LIP/ACCLIP
—QTI Assessment
—ePortfolio
• Specification integration phase 2
—Simple Sequencing
—Learning Design
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Techniques & Tools
• Use the UML for specification development
• Use the auto-generation tools to support
WSDL and XSD binding creations
• Release version 1 of the ‘IMS Specification
Development Methods & Best Practices’
document
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Implementation
Goal – support tool and content developers
and end user organizations (i.e. adopters)
as they implement specifications in their
products and organizations.
2005 Activities
Compliance Program
Outreach and Training
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Compliance Program
• Compliance is based on Self-testing— Phase 1
— Each Vendor responsible for its self-testing methodology
— Phase 2
— Vendors self-test against reference data and a reference
implementation
• IMS manages reference data, compliance list and
mark
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Communication Forums
• Developer Support – specification training,
technical overviews, reference information,
online developer communities
• End User Support – procurement advice,
case studies, white papers, online adopter
communities
• Specific activities are motivated by
Member priorities and resource availability
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Adopter and Developer Support• Past
• HR-XML adoption of RDCEO and
ePortfolio
• Workshops at eLearning Results
Summit
• ePortfolio funding via EC Project
• Established European IMS
• Supported ePortfolio Secretariat
• Presentations
• Future
• Compliance
• Educational materials, guidance
documents, workshops, links to
Centres, Listservs
• Glossary proposal
• European IMS Board and planning
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Questions & comments ?
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The Paradox
• Everyone wants the benefits of broad
interoperability, but …
• Everyone must meet narrow legal, cultural,
business needs
Resolution: Framework, standards, profiles and
flexibility
System Framework
Standards
Local ProfilesLocal ProfilesLocal ProfilesLocal Profiles
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Suggestions for Interoperability Metrics• Performance
—Time/cost of installation, operation, migration
• Effectiveness
—Demonstrations, marketplace results
• Satisfaction
—Surveys, outcomes data
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Suggestions for Impact Metrics• Performance
—Baseline - U of Wisc conversion data
• Effectiveness
—alt-i-lab Demonstrator Scenarios, case studies
• Satisfaction
—Surveys, outcomes data
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