Learning Information Services Alliance
The Information Architecture for Learning
The aim of the Learning Information Services (LIS) specification is to enable learning application interoperability. The key objectives are to enable the management and manipulation of:
- Information about People - to provide data exchange about people who are participating in learning;
- The enrolment of People on Courses - to control the exchange of information for people attending courses;
- Organizational structures - to control the exchange of information for people attending courses;
- Course structure information - to provide data exchange for information about taught courses;
- Grade-book information - to provide data exchange for outcomes information;
- Batch processing - to provide initialization and synchronization transfer of very large amounts of data.
Overview of Learning Information Services
Benefits of membership
The Learning Information Services Alliance hosts the conformance program and provides support for implementing the LIS standard. Members have access to a variety of tools, presentations and sample files to help them utilize the specification.
A series of webinars throughout the year address various aspects of the standard and face-to-face Testfests provide opportunity for ad-hoc testing and demonstration of new implementations. Members of the Alliance also have access to the drafts of the latest version of the standard, well in advance of its public release.
Learnng Information Services Alliance Activities
The Learning Information Services Alliance has been created as a high value community for product and service developers wanting to be compliant with LIS. The Alliance delivers selected services to the public, but further services are available to subscribed participants with the annual subscription fee varying according to size and nature of the organization.
In addition to notices issued by IMS Global Learning Consortium (e.g. press releases or the IMS monthly Dispatch), the Alliance exploits four communication channels:
1.LIS Alliance website: this has a public area offering access to the specification as well as introductory information on LIS. The participants area provides access to a wide range of LIS tools.
2. Testfest: These events are co-located with the IMS quarterly meetings and the annual Learning Impact conference. Testfests are often open to the public, offering an opportunity for newcomers to get a taste of the Alliance activities and meet other participants. The meetings provide a platform for demonstrating new implementations of LIS, conducting ad-hoc interoperability testing and discussing common issues.
3. LIS News Update: An occasional publication distributed to Contributing Members, Affiliate Members, Alliance participants and the IMS Community, offering news on events, new tools available and adoption activities.
4. LIS Alliance Forum: a discussion forum available to support Alliance participants in adopting LIS, sharing of adapters to popular applications, and tracking conformance status and issues - an invaluable resource for developers and institutions adopting LIS.
Benefits of Learnng Information Services Alliance Membership
- Attendance at testfest events.
- LIS news updates and discussion forum.
- Listing of support on IMS GLC web site.
- Use of LIS Alliance logo on web and in literature.
- Notifications of new tools.
- Opportunity to participate in LIS Alliance presence at conferences and exhibitions.
Join the LIS Alliance
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Learning Information Services Alliance Website
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