IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.

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Why was IMS Formed?

StandardsEmerge

0 Demonstration Adoption

Pioneers

Everyone

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The IMS Mission

To promote the development of global distributed learning through the cooperative and collaborative efforts of universities, non-profit organizations, agencies of governments, companies and other organizations that make a definitive, substantial and continuing commitment to the development, evolution and/or use of advanced distributed learning environments 

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R&D Concepts

User Needs

TechnicalTrends

IMS Gets Standards Started

ApprovedStandards

LabsTestbedsMarkets

StandardsBodies

SpecConsortia

SpecConsortia

SpecConsortia

SpecConsortia

LabsTestbedsMarketsTestbeds,Markets

StandardsBodies

Specifications Implementations,Reference Models,Requirements

Standards

ADL IEEE

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IMS Activities

Open Technical Forum• Plenary technical meetings

Developers Network• Exchange of tools, techniques, trials

www.imsglobal.org• Web forums, news, logistics

Technical Board• Specification review and approval

Working Groups• Specification scoping and development

Who Participates in IMS?

Labs, Test-beds

DomainConsortia

Standards Bodies

Distributed Learning Organizations Commercial Developers

Researchers

ContentProviders

GovernmentAgencies

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Contributing Members

ADL Co-Lab

Apple

Artesia Technologies

Becta

Blackboard

Campus Pipeline

Centra Software

CIC

Cisco Systems

Click 2 Learn

Calif. State Universities

DETYA

Digital Learning Interactive

Digitalthink

Educational Testing Service

EDUCAUSE

PeopleSoft

Prometheus

R5 Vision

Saba Software

SCT

THINQ

Thomson Learning

UFI

UNext

University of Michigan

University of Wisconsin

University System of Maryland

US Department of Labor

Virginia Tech

Virtual Education Space

WebCT

• Eduprise• Epic Group• Fretwell-Downing Group• GIUNTI Interactive Labs • IBM Corporation• Industry Canada• JISC• LUVIT• Miami-Dade Community

College• Microsoft • MIT• NIST• Open Universiteit Nederland• Oracle• Pearson Education

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Standards Benefit Everyone

Learners

Providers

Vendors

Authors/Mentors

Policy Makers

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What are the Benefits?

Common Infrastructure• integration, operation, migration

Marketplace of Learning Resources• content, software, solutions

Higher Level of Innovation• pedagogy, access, delivery

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Beneficial Side Effects

Common terms and concepts

Agendas for R & D

Meaningful metrics

Shareable activities and results

Cumulative knowledge

Products, Services, Practices

IMS MembersTechnical

Board

IMS Developers,Adopters

User Needs, Technical Means, Practical Constraints

Tests and Trials

Working Groups

Development

Stages

Scope

Base

Public Draft

Final Release

Working Groups Develop Specs

IMS Specifications Process (6/2001)

Working Group

Milestones

Scope Document

Base Document

Public Draft

Final Release

Month 1 Month 3 Month 6 ~Month 9

Drafting TransitionFeedbackApproach

Technical Board Votes

Meta-DataEnterprise,Content Packaging,Learing Information Packaging,Quiz/Test Results Reporting

Quiz/Test Results Reporting

Accessiblity,Content and Data Modeling

Learning Design,Digital Repositories

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Process shown on web-site

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Specification Process Archived

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Tech Bd Votes in 2001

Date Document Level Version Result

3/20/01 Content Packaging Final 1.1 pass4/27/01 Meta-data Public Draft 1.2 pass4/30/01 Accessibility Scope 1.0 pass4/30/01 GUID White Paper 1.0 pass4/30/01 Learning Design Scope 1.0 fail4/30/01 Content Comm and Data Model Scope 1.0 pass4/30/01 QTI Results Reporting Scope 1.2 pass5/18/01 Meta-data Final 1.2 pass6/18/01 QTI Results Reporting Base 1.2 pass7/17/01 Digital Repositories Scope 1.0 pass8/6/01 Learning Design Scope 1.0 pass8/10/01 QTI Results Reporting Public Draft 1.2 pass9/17/01 Simple Sequencing Scope 1.0 pass10/31/01 Enterprise Scope 1.1 pass10/31/01 Enterprise Scope 2.0 pass

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Adoption

SCORM, CANCORE, MERLOT, NCAM

Giunti, Fretwell-Downing, Thomson

Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco

Saba, NetG, Centra, Can Studios

Blackboard, WebCT, …

Eduprise, PeopleSoft

JISC, DETYA, Industry Canada

120 Developers Network subscribers

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Working Affiliations

ADL Co-Lab

OKI/MIT

OCLC

SIF

MERLOT

IEEE/LTSC

EDUCAUSE/NLII

NCAM

Industry Canada

JISC/CETIS

DEST/IMS Australia

Singapore

Mexico

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Compliance Activity

BECTa/BSI

Singapore

ADL request

Industry interest (Microsoft, Docent, Apple)

SIF, USOeC

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Cooperation

Specifications,Best Practice

New Products,Pilot Programs,Testbeds

R&D Concepts

User Needs

TechnicalTrends

SpecConsortia

ProgramsTestbeds,Markets

StandardsBodies

AccreditedStandards

W3CW3CSIFSIF

oclcoclc

COLISCOLIS

CEN/ISSCEN/ISS

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