Organizational Update: The Next IMS/GLC Ed Walker NLII 2005

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2 Success Means - Learning is … Convenient: “easy to use” - low end-user effort to access, use, etc. - think Amazon front-end Effective: “does what I want” - meets learner/teacher objectives for learning outcomes; meets learning provider objectives for learning outcomes and volume of usage Affordable: “reasonable cost/benefit” - meets learning supplier objectives for acquisition, installation, and maintenance cost/benefit; meets learner/teacher objectives for time and effort viz outcome Profitable: “successful business” - meets supplier business objectives for market size, production cost, margins, etc.

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 3 Released specifications 1.Meta-data v Content Packaging v Question and Test v Learner Information v Enterprise v Simple Sequencing v Learning Design v Digital Repositories v Competencies v Accessibility for LIP v Vocabulary Definitions v Shareable State Persistence v Enterprise Services v Resource List Interoperability v AccessforAll Meta-data v1.0

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 4 Downloads

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 5 Activities Communications —Newsletters —Member Website - Forums/Collaboration —Public Website Member Activities —Member Surveys —Quarterly Meetings —Technical Exchanges —Open Technical Forums Project Management Document Production

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 6 Results IEEE SCORM SIF IMS/GLC Metadata, CP LIP Competencies QTI Simple Sequencing Content Packaging BSI SIFA NCAM HR/XML DCMI,W3C ACC ADL Metadata eGIF CP, QTI, LIP, Ent, LD, SS, RDCEO Sakai ACC, QTI Sharable State EDS LIP ISO ACC ELF Framework

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 7 Non-financial Equity Body of work products P roven processes Contributing Members (49) Board of Directors Staff Affiliates Relationships

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8 Renewed Vision and Objectives Consolidated by IMS/GLC Board —Board meetings Sept 2003, March 2004, July 2004 —Planning meetings Sept 2004, Jan 2005 (with facilitator) Input by IMS/GLC members, affiliates, and others —Meetings: alt-I-lab 2003; Anaheim (Oct 2003); Zurich, Amsterdam, London (Feb 2004); alt-I-lab 2004 —Survey of members: Fall 2003 —Facilitated interviews/surveys: June-July 2004

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 9 Elements of 2005 Plan Destination —Vision, Mission, Goals Map and compass —Objectives, tasks and schedules Dials and gauges —Milestone deliverables, metrics of progress

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 10 Vision Convenient, effective, affordable, and profitable learning is available to every learner and teacher in the world.

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 11 Mission To promote the development of global distributed learning by facilitating and leading cooperative and collaborative efforts to develop, evolve and use advanced distributed learning environments

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 12 Goals Serve vendors, buyers, and the community of practice to a high professional standard of effectiveness and efficiency.

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 13 Objectives Remove technical problems slowing adoption Content and tool interoperability, tools, techniques Facilitate implementation by users Compliance, communication forums Increase marketplace acceptance and demand Open Technical Forums, alt-i-lab Maintain on-going processes and activities

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 14 General Metrics Economic impact —Profit margins/acquisition cost —Product lifetime/life cycle cost —Overall production cost and cost of use Policy/Program Impact —Learner/Teacher goals (number, type) —Quality goals (test scores, employment) —“Market share”

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 15 Measures of Progress Scenarios (from critical use cases) —Implementation: functional requirements, acceptance test, cost/benefit outcomes —Development: UML Models, system design, performance metrics, interoperability reqs, product testing Implementation milestones —TBD examples - eGIF, SCORM, Sakai, SIF, 1M teachers, 20M learners, sales/use targets, etc.

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 16 External Metrics Interoperable assessment and data management Distributed Repository interoperability Integrated instruction & assessment Flexible author- ing, review, & distribution in the hands of professionals Life long learning for anyone anywhere anytime Growth in Overall Function Annual Demonstrator and Implementation Milestones Products Adoptions Awareness etc Products Adoptions Awareness etc Products Adoptions Awareness etc Products Adoptions Awareness etc Products Adoptions Awareness etc

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 17 Fulfilling the IMS/GLC Role Higher Ed Tech Training K-12/Schools Life Long Learning Prof. Training Perf. Support

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 18 Task breakdown World-wide eLearning Community

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 19 Spec Development In Process —QTI (item) v2 —General Web Services —ePortfolio —Meta-data v1.3 —CP v1.1.4 update Other Activities —Packaged versions of IMS specifications —Review completed: SS & LIP/ACCLIP —Evaluated binding automation

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 20 Timeline February - (Melbourne) May - US alt-i-lab UK November - North America

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 21 IMS TB Work Programme

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 22 Tool Interoperability Goal – achieve “on the wire” runtime interoperability Metric – value to educators at the chalk-face

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 23 Tool Interoperability Approach Select a “value-add” tool Target two or more Learning Environments Define functional scope of interaction Agree technical tasks Do it Document and communicate how it was done

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 24 Tools Interoperability Outputs Recommendations for working practice Example code extracts An interoperable tool Two or more “tool ready” Learning Environments Demonstration of tool interoperability at Alt-I- Lab 2005

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 25 Packaging Consolidation - I Types of packages —Learning materials —Composite object e.g. ePortfolio, QTI Assessment, LIP records, etc. —Collections of composite objects e.g. QTI Items, LIP records, etc. Service model for packaging —Service interface definition cf. OSIDs —Binding to web-services using IMS GWS

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 26 Packaging Consolidation- 2 Data model clean-up —Sub-manifests —Alternative resources —External meta-data & metadata aggregation —Table of contents only —…

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 27 Packaging Consolidation - 3 Specification integration phase 1 —Content Packaging —LIP/ACCLIP —QTI Assessment —ePortfolio Specification integration phase 2 —Simple Sequencing —Learning Design

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 28 Techniques & Tools Use the UML for specification development Use the auto-generation tools to support WSDL and XSD binding creations Release version 1 of the ‘IMS Specification Development Methods & Best Practices’ document

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 29 Implementation Goal – support tool and content developers and end user organizations (i.e. adopters) as they implement specifications in their products and organizations Activities Compliance Program Outreach and Training

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 30 Compliance Program Compliance is based on Self-testing —Phase 1 —Each Vendor responsible for its self-testing methodology —Phase 2 —Vendors self-test against reference data and a reference implementation IMS manages reference data, compliance list and mark

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 31 Communication Forums Developer Support – specification training, technical overviews, reference information, online developer communities End User Support – procurement advice, case studies, white papers, online adopter communities Specific activities are motivated by Member priorities and resource availability

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 32 Adopter and Developer Support Past HR-XML adoption of RDCEO and ePortfolio Workshops at eLearning Results Summit ePortfolio funding via EC Project Established European IMS Supported ePortfolio Secretariat Presentations Future Compliance Educational materials, guidance documents, workshops, links to Centres, Listservs Glossary proposal European IMS Board and planning

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 33 Questions & comments ?

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 34 The Paradox Everyone wants the benefits of broad interoperability, but … Everyone must meet narrow legal, cultural, business needs Resolution: Framework, standards, profiles and flexibility System Framework Standards Local Profiles

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 35 Suggestions for Interoperability Metrics Performance —Time/cost of installation, operation, migration Effectiveness —Demonstrations, marketplace results Satisfaction —Surveys, outcomes data

© Copyright 2004 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 36 Suggestions for Impact Metrics Performance —Baseline - U of Wisc conversion data Effectiveness —alt-i-lab Demonstrator Scenarios, case studies Satisfaction —Surveys, outcomes data