Tag: IMS

Atutor 1.3 released – now with IMS content packaging

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New releases of existing CMS don’t usually warrant a posting, but this one’s maybe an exception – the folks at the University of Toronto’s Adaptive Technology Resource Centre have been working hard to develop a full featured suite of accessible online learning and communication tools. Their latest effort is to include IMS compliant content packaging utilities for creating interoperable learning objects into the existing Atutor LMS. The software is PHP and MySQL-based. Where the software really excels, as might be expected, is in being immensely re-skinnable/reconfigurable to adapt to almost any device or user need. It is worth taking a look at if only for that reason, as an object lesson in adaptable, accessible design. – SWL

IMS releases elearning specification Abstract Framework

http://www.imsglobal.org/af/index.cfm

“The IMS Abstract Framework (IAF) is a device to enable the IMS to describe the context within which it will continue to develop its eLearning technology specifications. This framework is not an attempt to define the IMS architecture, rather it is a mechanism to define the set of services for which IMS may or may not produce a set of interoperability specifications.” It’s hard to describe how huge this is. A lot of work has gone into this. It is not for the faint of heart. Start with the white paper, that alone is worth a few days or reading and digesting, and is invaluable for the appendices alone. – SWL

Download IMS Specifications as Content Packages

http://www.imsglobal.org/specificationdownload.cfm

You can now download the various IMS specification documents packaged as an IMS Content Packages themselves. The advantages, as their feed says, are that “by downloading the specification as IMS packaged content, you can see what a content package looks like and how it is organized. You can also import it as a learning resource into your Content Packaging enabled learning management system or repository.” – SWL

Latest CETIS briefing on IMS specifications

This latest in the CETIS series of briefings about e-learning interoperability standards deals with IMS Simple Sequencing. This is the fifth such briefing, the others having focused on the IMS Enterprise, LIP, Content Package and QTI specifications. If you haven’t seen these yet, they are highly recommended; short (typically 2-3 pages) comprehensible descriptions that explain these specifications from the perspective of what they enable. – SWL

– via [CETIS: Standards in Education Technology]