What is IMS Learning Design?

By Ann Jeffery and Sarah Currier.
Cetis Briefing Paper , serial number: 2005:B06.
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Link: What is IMS Learning Design? (pdf).

A CETIS briefing on IMS Learning Design, which is a specification used to describe learning scenarios. IMS Learning Design allows these scenarios to be presented to learners online, and enables them to be shared between systems. It can describe a wide variety of pedagogical models, or approaches to learning, including group work and collaborative learning. It does not define individual pedagogical models; instead it provides a high level language, or meta-model, that can describe many different models. The language describes how people perform activities using resources (including materials and services), and how these three things are coordinated into a learning flow.

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What is IMS Content Packaging?

By Sarah Currier and Scott Wilson.
Cetis Briefing Paper , serial number: 2005:B05.
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Link: What is IMS Content Packaging? (pdf).

A CETIS briefing on IMS Content Packaging, a specification for sending learning resources (or learning objects) from one program to another, facilitating easier delivery, reuse and sharing of materials. IMS Packages enable you to export content from one virtual learning environment (VLE), content management system or digital repository, and import it into another while retaining information describing the media in the IMS Package, and how it is structured, such as a table of contents or the HTML page to show first.

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What is ADL SCORM?

By Warwick Bailey.
Cetis Briefing Paper , serial number: 2005:B04.
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Link: What is ADL SCORM? (pdf).

A CETIS Briefing Paper on the ADL Shareable Content Object Reference Model. Shareable content objects (SCOs) are individual, electronic units of learning that may be combined to create a course of study.

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What is IEEE Learning Object Metadata / IMS Learning Resource Metadata?

By Phil Barker.
Cetis Briefing Paper , serial number: 2005:B01.
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Link: What is IEEE Learning Object Metadata (pdf).

A CETIS briefing paper on the IEEE 1484.12.1 – 2002 Standard for Learning Object Metadata, a standard for the description of “learning objects”. IEEE 1484.12.1 is the first part of a multipart standard, and describes the LOM data model. The LOM data model specifies which aspects of a learning object should be described and what vocabularies may be used for these descriptions; it also defines how this data model can be amended by additions or constraints.

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What is IMS Enterprise?

By Scott Wilson.
Cetis Briefing Paper , serial number: 2002:B02.
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Link: What is IMS Enterprise? (pdf)

A CETIS briefing paper about IMS Enterprise, a specification for transferring data about people and groups (for example, students on a course) between systems such as Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), Portals, Student Record Systems (SRSs), and Management Information Systems (MISs).

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What is IMS Learner Information Packaging?

By Scott Wilson and Peter Rees Jones.
Cetis Briefing Paper , serial number: 2002:B01.
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Link: What is IMS Learner Information Packaging? (pdf).

A CETIS briefing paper about the IMS Learner Information Package (LIP), a specification for a standard means of recording information about learners. LIP is designed to allow information about learners, including their progress to date and awards received, to be transferred between different software applications.

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