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IMS Compliance Program
http://www.imsproject.org/conformance/index.html I could be wrong, but this seems new, and welcome at that. IMS has announced this new Compliance Program which outlines methods for developers of content, services and applications to provide evidence to support conformance claims based on self testing, and in so doing rate the claim of “IMS Conformant.” While we have had [...]
"Monoliths," APIs and Extensability – A presentation on the past and future directions of CMS
http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/CMS_overview.ppt I was very fortunate recently to deliver the above talk to a CMS task Force at UBC on the overall lay of the CMS land. It seems relevant to share it here, especially in light of a recent post by James Farmer on integrating open source pieces with WebCT, and the great follow up [...]
Open Knowledge Initiative Delivers XOSID Specification
http://www.imsglobal.org/news.html The specifications geeks in the crowd will want to note (and probably have already seen) this joint announcement by IMS and OKI that they have released an XML binding or representation of OKI’s Open Service Interface Definitions (OSID), previously only officially available as Java APIs. Wilbert Kraan at CETIS has written an article which [...]
Educause Quarterly Article: Changing Course Management Systems
http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm05/eqm05210.asp This is one of those articles that ranks in the “could have been important but ends up being too anecdotal” category. The authors are right in pointing to course conversion as both a potential cost issue and huge concern in switching CMS. All one has to do is ask a collection of system administrators [...]
WebCT announces participation in IMS Tools Interoperability Working Group
http://www.webct.com/service/ ViewContent?contentID=25561480 I’m sure the chattering masses (hey, I don’t exclude myself from this grouping) will have something to say about this one – yea, as the prophets foretold, in the year of the mark of the sign of the beast, the ‘evil empire’ took control, yada yada yada – but from where I’m sitting, [...]
New IMS Specification Download Pages and License
http://www.imsglobal.org/specificationdownload.cfm IMS has a re-designed website, and a fairly unwelcomed addition to getting access to the specification documents. As they state on the individual specification pages “HTML documents may be viewed online, but may not be printed without permission. To download an electronic copy for printing, please go to the specification download page.” I guess [...]
CETIS 'Interoperability in Action' Video
http://www.x4l.org/video/index.shtml Derek Morrison at Auricle points to this video from CETIS called ‘Interoperability in Action’ which is well worth a watch. It takes you through a step by step scenario of a user adding an object to the Intrallect Intralibrary-driven JORUM repository, and then a second user accessing that object, extending an existing course, and [...]
Alt-i-Lab papers and highlights
http://members.imsglobal.org/forum/ims/ dispatch.cgi/f.altilabtech Lucky for us all, the IMS have posted the supporting papers and slides in a publicly accessible area. Day Two of the sessions I was assigned to the Content working group. The promise of this group had been to tackle some of the questions laid out in the stimulating “Repository Management and Implementation” [...]
eLearning-Results 2004 conference in Italy
http://www.elearningresults.com/ If anyone has a few extra thousand dollars laying around and wants to spend it to send me to the Portofino Coast in Italy to attend this conference in May on their behalf, just let me know – SWL
Joint IMS/CNI Whitepaper on interoperation between different types of 'repositories'
http://www.imsglobal.org/ DLims_white_paper_publicdraft_1.pdf I can only assume that the only reason someone didn’t point this paper out to me during my recent thrashing about concerning the difference between ‘institutional’ repositories and ‘learning object’ repositories is that, like me, they had never seen it before (or maybe you’re all just sadists and like to watch me flail [...]
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