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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 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 (e.g. California State University, UNC, U. Michigan, Miami-Dade, Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Apple, KPMG, International Thomson Publishing, NIST, DOD)
Goal of IMS “Building the Internet Architecture for Learning” • freely available technical specifications • freely available prototypes and migration tools
LM Server Object Metadata Permissions Profile Data Exchange Commerce Metadata Back-end Systems Object LM Server IMS Standards
IMSEnvironment Teacher Authoring Tools Learning Resources Off Campus Student IMS Mgmt System & Content CD Collaboration Tools Back office On campus Student
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
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
Scope of the IMS Specification Student Profiles Interfaces to External Services Management Meta-data Content
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
IMS Content Specification Supports technical interoperability of: • assessment • sequencing • reporting data • bookmarking • notification • meta-data
Management Specification • Manages • Content • Courses • Collaboration • Interfaces • Database, Security, Access control, HTTP/CGI, tracking, session management, DCOM/Corba message bridging ….
IMS Profile Specification • Educational records “Wallet” • Mobile • Contains • Personal information • Performance information • Portfolio • Preferences
External Services Specification • Specifies technical interface to campus IT infrastructure • student records • billing/commerce • library
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
Timings • Release 1.0 at Easter • Main aspects of • Metadata • Content • Profiles • Back Office • Subsequent 6 monthly releases
UK IMS Centre • Bangor and OU • Funded by JTAP • 2 year project • Represent UK View • Disseminate results
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
Contact information • www.imsproject.org.uk • Paul Lefrere (OU) • Oleg Liber (Bangor) • Bill Olivier (Bangor) • Lisa Rowlands (Bangor