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Press Release on Digital Learning Services

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Learning Information Services
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Learning Information Services Interoperability Demo Video

Basic Learning Tools Interoperability Video Overview


Digital Learning Services Standards: Enabling the Next Generation of Digital Learning and Education


Presented originally at IMS GLC’s annual Learning Impact conference and Summit on Global Learning Industry Challenges 2008 in Austin, TX, USA, Digital Learning Services provides a ‘suite’ of open and free interoperability standards to address the integration challenges of enterprise systems, web services, and software as a service. Read the complete press release and learn which organizations are supporting DLS here: http://www.imsglobal.org/pressreleases/pr080512.html

Digital Learning Services consists of three major standards that support a new generation of learning technology. These are:

  1. Distributed digital learning content, assessments, in a collaborative learning context (Common Cartridge - CC)
  2. Learning applications, mash-ups, software as a service, and content as a service (Learning Tools Interoperability - LTI)
    Basic Learning Tools Interoperability Video Overview
  3. Learner information: user provisioning and outcomes (Learning Information Services – LIS)
    Learning Information Services Interoperability Demo Video

The following video segments provide an overview of the IMS Digital Learning Services (DLS) standards, including demonstrations of prototypes (or access the complete video below):

 

1. Quicklook – Summary diagram of Digital Learning Services (:19)
2. Learning, education & web 2.0: enabling the next generation (2:45)
3. Limitations on innovation addressed by the Digital Learning Services (DLS) standards (1:50)
4. What are the three cooperating Digital Learning Services standards? (2:35)
5. DLS part 1- Common Cartridge (CC): Enabling distributed educational content (6:51) Featuring ANGEL Learning, Pearson Education, The Open University (UK), Ucompass.com
6. DLS part 2- Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI): Enabling content and software as a service in an integrated context (8:47) Featuring ANGEL Learning, Pearson Education, and Microsoft
7. Additional Common Cartridge features: Integrated assessment and collaborative learning (3:44) Featuring ANGEL Learning and Pearson Education
8. Additional Common Cartridge features: Content authorization and archiving (1:35)
9. DLS part 3- Learning Information Services (LIS): Enabling user provisioning and outcomes reporting (2:27) Featuring Inigral and Oracle
10. The authoritative source on DLS conformance: The IMS Learning & Educational Technology Product Directory (2:49)
11. Digital Learning Connection (DLC): Increasing the use of digital learning in your institution or district by making it easy (4:05) Featuring ANGEL Learning and McGraw-Hill
12. Getting involved (:49)
The complete video: Digital Learning Services Standards: Enabling the Next Generation of Digital Learning and Education (36:27)