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The IMS Project

The IMS Project. Technology for supporting learning Sandy Britain, UK IMS Centre. Outline. Part 1: Background and Rationale Part 2: Description. The IMS Project. Created to address challenges in on-line learning Partnership of universities and companies

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The IMS Project

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  1. The IMS Project Technology for supporting learning Sandy Britain, UK IMS Centre

  2. Outline • Part 1: Background and Rationale • Part 2: Description

  3. The IMS Project • Created to address challenges in on-line learning • Partnership of universities and companies (e.g. California State University, UNC, U. Michigan, Miami-Dade, Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Apple, KPMG, International Thomson Publishing, NIST, DOD)

  4. Goal of IMS “Building the Internet Architecture for Learning” • freely available technical specifications • freely available prototypes and migration tools

  5. LM Server Object Metadata Permissions Profile Data Exchange Commerce Metadata Back-end Systems Object LM Server IMS Standards

  6. IMSEnvironment Teacher Authoring Tools Learning Resources Off Campus Student IMS Mgmt System & Content CD Collaboration Tools Back office On campus Student

  7. What open technical standards can do • Jumpstart “content” and educational environments for the Internet (and Intranet) • Make it easier for developers to create and distribute content • don’t have to support proprietary servers • people can find it easily • Enable “any time, any where” learning

  8. Project Outputs • Specifications for: • Metadata: U. North Carolina • Content interoperability: IBM • Profiles: Farance Inc. • Learning Management: Blackboard Inc. • Back Office: PeopleSoft Inc. • Ecommerce: George Mason U. • Examples & prototypes

  9. Scope of the IMS Specification Student Profiles Interfaces to External Services Management Meta-data Content

  10. IMS Meta-data Specification • IMS Metadata Search/Query Demonstration • http://metadata.imsproject.org/mdtool/ • IMS/NIST Metadata Repository • dictionary of terms for describing content • supports group specialization • can be queried/browsed with modified authoring tools

  11. IMS Content Specification Supports technical interoperability of: • assessment • sequencing • reporting data • bookmarking • notification • meta-data

  12. Management Specification • Manages • Content • Courses • Collaboration • Interfaces • Database, Security, Access control, HTTP/CGI, tracking, session management, DCOM/Corba message bridging ….

  13. IMS Profile Specification • Educational records “Wallet” • Mobile • Contains • Personal information • Performance information • Portfolio • Preferences

  14. External Services Specification • Specifies technical interface to campus IT infrastructure • student records • billing/commerce • library

  15. What kind of a project is IMS? • Not your usual standards committee • action oriented, creating prototypes, putting them into real situations • Not selling anything but working very hard to give it away • goal is widespread adoption of the technical specification • Looking to transform the learning technology marketplace • specifications designed for evolution and change

  16. Timings • Release 1.0 at Easter • Main aspects of • Metadata • Content • Profiles • Back Office • Subsequent 6 monthly releases

  17. UK IMS Centre • Bangor and OU • Funded by JTAP • 2 year project • Represent UK View • Disseminate results

  18. Current Actions • University User Groups • Face to face and online discussions • Identify UK requirements • Advisory board meetings • Technical board meetings • Maintain information flow • Website, events

  19. Contact information • www.imsproject.org.uk • Paul Lefrere (OU) • Oleg Liber (Bangor) • Bill Olivier (Bangor) • Lisa Rowlands (Bangor

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