IMS GLC offers and participates in a variety of webinars. Check out the current list of upcoming webinars below and join us for an event. Or check out the archive of a past webinar.
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UPCOMING WEBINARS
Coming in August:
Understanding and Implementing Basic LTI
Audience: Members With Access to CM/DN Draft of BasicLTI
Presenter: Charles Severance
Length: 2.0 hours 0.5 hours questions
This will introduce the IMS Basic LTI specification and cover the specification in technical detail. This webinar will be useful for organizations reviewing the specification as part of the IMS CM/DN process as well as organizations planning to implement the Basic LTI specification for their tool or learning management system. We will cover the following topics from the Basic LTI specification: (1) the data model, (2) the security model, (3) the launch protocol, (4) Common Cartridge descriptors. We will also explore sample source code in Java and PHP which implements Basic LTI as well as play with a few implementations of Basic LTI online during the webinar. Membership is required to attend this webinar as we will cover the contents of the current CMDN draft of BasicLTI. You can get more detail on IMS membership at http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/alliance.html
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IMS Learning Tools Interoperability - Update - July 2009
Presenter: Charles Severance
Length: 1 hour presentation 0.5 hours questions
This webinar will give an overview of the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability specification. IMS LTI allows externally hosted tools and content to be integrated into a Learning Management System in a standard and interoperable manner. LTI is similar in scope to Blackboard Building Blocks, WebCT PowerLinks, and the Blackboard 9 Proxy tool pattern. LTI gives tool builders the ability to write one integration and integrate their tool into a number of LMS systems without writing any LMS-specific code or LMS specific plugin. IMS LTI functions as the "universal plugin point" to any LMS which supports LTI. IMS LTI also will be integrated into the IMS Common Cartridge v1.1, allowing publishers and LMS systems to produce cartridges with authenticated links back to protected content hosted on publisher servers. The webinar will cover the timeline and scope for the LTIv2.0 specification under development as well as the BasicLTI profile of LTI.
Common Cartridge Webinars:
To coincide with the release of the Common Cartridge specification, the CC Alliance is running a short series of public webinars to introduce Common Cartridge and its capabilities. These events are open to the public and participation is free-of-charge.
The next webinar is scheduled for Monday 10th November 2008, 19:00-20:30 hrs EST, or Tuesday 11th November for:
London 00:00-01:30 GMT
Seoul/Tokyo 09:00-10:30
Sydney 11:00-12:30
Wellington 13:00-14:30
Common Cartridge webinar for Europe
A further webinar has been scheduled for Thursday 13th November 2008, 09:00-10:30 hrs EST, or:
14:00-15:30 GMT
15:00-16:30 CET
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June 2007
Webinar: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in Education - from Top to Bottom
In the education segment worldwide, ICT leaders are looking for ways to enable the integration of new functionality and innovations into the learning enterprise. The emergence of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) holds great promise in making core cross-enterprise functions and new applications available across the enterprise and simplifying the choreography to support compelling business processes. This allows more rapid and cost effective response of the ICT infrastructure to changing requirements.
However, how does an educational institution begin to achieve progress toward implementing SOA? Support of SOA needs to be provided at all levels of the enterprise stack and, perhaps most importantly, the move to SOA should be driven by business needs. What are the realistic possibilities and priorities in education today?
In this first of a series of Learning Impact webinars on SOA, the IMS Global Learning Consortium brings together experts from leading providers of SOA-enabled products and services in the education segments. Each of the organizations, Cisco Systems, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle provide their own unique focus on infrastructure, applications, and services. They will each provide their advice on what to consider, how to begin, and what are the real products or services available today. They will then take questions from the audience.
The presenters/panelists and topics are:
- Rob Abel, CEO, IMS Global Learning Consortium, moderator
- Mamoun Hirzalla, Senior SOA Architect, IBM, Engineering the ICT infrastructure for change using IBM's SOA-related technologies and offerings, including middleware, hardware, and services
- Cliff Lloyd, Program Manager, Microsoft Education Products Group, The Microsoft Learning Gateway is a real-world application of SOA, currently improving teaching and learning outcomes all over the world through "anytime, anyplace" access to relevant information for all members of a learning community.
- Colin Smythe, Chief Architect, IMS Global Learning Consortium, moderator
- Craig Smythe, Education Solutions Manager, Cisco Systems, Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) for integrated services
- Markus Zirn, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Why executives and managers should care about SOA and the intersection of middleware and enterprise applications
October 2006
- Integrated Assessment Products and Strategies: Gauging Student Achievement and Institutional Performance
Leading educators and institutions are finding that new tools and strategies are allowing them to integrate assessment into the learning process, benefiting both the student and the institution. Join us for a blue-ribbon panel presentation and discussion on effective use of assessments in higher education.
This webinar will explore the current state of Internet-delivered assessments, as well as emerging trends in how assessments and outcome analytics are being used to enhance student achievement in higher education institutions, ranging from Community Colleges, For-Profits, to Elite Institutions
Panelists:
Neil Allison- Director, Product Marketing, Blackboard
Sarah Bradford - Vice President of Product Management, eCollege
David Smetters - President, Respondus, Inc.
Colin Smythe - Chief Specification Strategist, IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
Moderator:
Rob Abel, CEO, IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.View the Recording ** Please note that the archive starts a few minutes after the session began**
- Learning Impact Webinar: The Next Phase of Educational Technology
Presented by Mike King, IBM and Rob Abel, IMS
May 2006
Horizon Wimba's Desktop Lecture Series presentation by Rob Abel of the IMS about What's Next in Learning Technology in Higher Education?