Improve the Quality and Use of Digital Learning Materials for the Benefit of Students and Instructors
IMS GLC offers a number of technical and adoption standards to enhance the quality and use of digital learning materials. This array of standards provides for the distribution of digital learning content and resources, and enables the alignment of content and assessments to curriculum standards and learning objectives and lesson planning.
IMS GLC technical standards also enable the organization, publishing, distribution, delivery, search and authorization of a wide variety of collections of digital learning content, applications, and associated online discussion forums used as the basis for or in support of online learning of any type.
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Common Cartridge (CC) establishes a richer, more integrated elearning environment by providing a development, distribution and authorization framework for the integration of digital content and associated digital learning tools (simulations, assessments, tests, online labs, forums, discussions, etc.).
- Content Packaging (CP) enables efficient development and distribution of digital learning content and resources, providing content developers, instructors and instructional designers a standard for packaging, storing and sharing digital assets.
- K12/Schools Enhancements to Common Cartridge (K12 CC) will enable greater coherence among digital content and assessments to curriculum standards, learning objectives and lesson planning – providing an enhanced learning and instructional environment for students and instructors, respectively.
- Learning Object Discovery and Exchange (LODE) will provide enhanced identification and accessibility to learning content stored in repositories and online library resources and enable instructors to develop courses and programs with a wider array of source material (open and for-profit).
- Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) provides students greater access to third-party, content-specific learning tools (simulations, assessments, testing, online labs, etc.), and provides educators with student learning outcomes and academic achievement results derived through these learning tools.
- Dynamic Instructional Content Exchange (DICE) will provide the development and distribution framework for a born-digital substitute for current textbooks and “etextbooks” integrated with digital learning materials (e.g. assessments, tests, simulations). The DICE environment will also provide instructors the ability to disaggregate digital learning content (book, chapter, reading, assessment, etc.) and align them with course/program learning objectives.
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