© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 1 Charles Severance, Ph.D. Affiliate Coordinator IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 2 IMS: Digital Learning Standards Free the content IMS Common Cartridge Seamlessly connect to learning IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) The information architecture for learning IMS Learning Information Services (LIS)

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 3 ** Acute Pain Points ** Separate accounts for all every service It is not legal to force student learning activity to be public Little tool interest in integrating tools into LMS's Usually very expensive even to start Very complex – moving target technically Every LMS vendor is *completely* different

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 4 Case Study: Amanda Severance Senior in Special Education Technology in the Classroom Course Eleven different accounts Setup required technical support 2:38

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© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 6 Solution: Basic Learning Tools Interoperability Build a simple standard plug-in for all LMS systems Tool and Content Providers can build one integration and use it in any LMS that supports the standard Start with low-hanging fruit and then expand feature sets to allow market to acclimate over time

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 7 Certified - LMS Desire2Learn Learning Environment v8.4.2 and v9.0 Blackboard Learn v9.1 SP4 / coursesites.com Jenzabar JICS v7.2 and e-Racer v1.2 Learning Objects Campus Pack v4.2 Sakai v2.7 OLAT 7.0 Moodle 1.9/2.0 Module GeNIE, Open-Source LMS v1.0 PowerLink for Blackboard WebCT Sakai 3 v0.4 Atutor ???

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 8 Certified - LMS Desire2Learn Learning Environment v8.4.2 and v9.0 Blackboard Learn v9.1 SP4 / coursesites.com Jenzabar JICS v7.2 and e-Racer v1.2 Learning Objects Campus Pack v4.2 Sakai v2.7 OLAT 7.0 Moodle 1.9/2.0 Module GeNIE, Open-Source LMS v1.0 PowerLink for Blackboard WebCT Sakai 3 v0.4 Atutor ??? February 2010

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© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 10 New: Blackboard CourseSites Free in the Cloud (as in free beer) Blackboard 9.1SP4 free Wimba free Elluminate free Teacher Flexibility (as in freedom) IMS CC 1.0 Import and Export Basic LTI Consumer

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© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 12 Certified Tools CourseSmart ServiceHub 2.0 CafeScribe Building Block for Blackboard Learning Objects Campus Pak v4.2 NoteFlight 2.1 Wimba Basic LTI Components v1.0.2 McGraw-Hill Education ???

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 13 BLTIBLTI BLTIBLTI... ?????

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 14 Joseph Berkovitz 4:32

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 15 LTI Terminology Tool Consumer – The system that "consumes" the tool (i.e. the Learning Management System – e.g. Blackboard, Moodle) Tool Provider – The system that provides the tool (e.g. Wimba, LearningObjects, etc..)

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 16 SOAP Services Launch Events Launch Events Tool Consumer Tool Provider TC Admin TC Admin Profile Tool Proxy Runtime TP Admin TP Admin Tool Proxy Runtime Tool Secret Tool Proxy Secret TC User TC User Tool Profile Learning Tools Interoperability Deployment Session Tool Setting Outcomes Data... Deployment Session Tool Setting Outcomes Data... REST Services

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 17 Basic LTI Goals We decided to roll out Learning Tools Interoperability in a phased series of releases These specifications are pretty detailed so we want to get them right We want to engineer reference implementations along the way Basic LTI: "The smallest useful subset of LTI"

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 18 Launch Tool Consumer Tool Provider TC Admin TC Admin Tool Proxy Runtime TP Admin TP Admin Tool Proxy Runtime Tool Secret Tool Proxy Secret TC User TC User Basic Learning Tools Interoperability

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 19 Basic LTI Certification Assure the end-user/purchaser that products will interoperate Any certified Provider (Tool) should be able to interoperate with any certified Consumer (LMS)

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© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 21 IMS Learning Tools Interoperability Technical Overview

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© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 23 Basic LTI Sample Launch Data lti_version=LTI-1p0 lti_message_type=basic-lti-launch-request oauth_consumer_key=lmsng.school.edu resource_link_id=120988f user_id= roles=Instructor lis_person_name_full=Charles R. Severance lis_person_contact_ _primary = context_id= context_title=SI301 – PHP tool_consumer_instance_description=University of School

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© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 26 Launch++ Tool Consumer Tool Provider TC Admin TC Admin Tool Proxy Runtime TP Admin TP Admin Tool Proxy Runtime Tool Secret Tool Proxy Secret TC User TC User Basic LTI Extensions Outcomes Roster Settings

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 27 BLTI Extensions Pattern Service can be called any time (i.e. no session needed) Tool sends outcome to service as form-encoded POST data, signed by OAuth shared-secret

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 28 IMS Implementation Support Materials, sample code, sample application Additional support and certification

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 29 Open Source Communities Apache 2 Licensed Code Samples and Libraries Basic LTI: Java, PHP, Python Common Cartridge: Java Open Mailing List / Forum umid=11

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 30 Basic LTI and IMS Common Cartridge Common Cartridge 1.1 will include the ability to define a Basic LTI resource and include that resource in course organizational structures Welcome HTML Resource Folder LTI Tool Discussion QTI Pool Welcome HTML Resource Folder LTI Tool Discussion QTI Pool

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 31 BLTIBLTI BLTIBLTI... ????? PREMIUM LEARNING CONTENT PREMIUM LEARNING CONTENT Learning Tools Learning Tools

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 32 Engaging open source, creating standards, engaging proprietary vendors, evangelizing ideas, doing demos, all are important activities... But if we want to have have real impact, the long-term goal must be to empower teachers and learners as to how they select, use and expand, technology to help themselves teach and learn...

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 33 CourseSites + Basic LTI + Google App Engine = Free in the Cloud

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 34 An Open-Ended App Store With Learning Tools and Content Built Into Every Learning Environment

© Copyright 2011 IMS Global Learning Consortium All Rights Reserved. 35 Questions IMS – Seamlessly connect to learning IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)