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IMS Learning Information Services - Overview
Terms of use
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Terms of use
These contents have been obtained from the IMS Global Learning COnsortium official Web site and edited for presentation. Please refer to the IMS official Web site for additional information on terms of use.
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The Learning Information Services (LIS) specification is the definition of how systems manage the exchange of information that describes people, groups, memberships, courses and outcomes within the context of learning. This specification establishes the means by which learning management systems exchange relevant information i.e. it defines system interoperability through a set of identified services.
IMPORTANT: The LIS v2.0 specification supersedes the IMS GLC Enterprise Services v1.0 specification.
The specification is based upon the concepts of:- Interoperability – LIS focuses on the exchange of information between learning information systems e.g. student information system, learning management system, etc. There are no assumptions in the specification on how the data is managed internally within a learning information system;
- Service-oriented – LIS defines the exchange of information in terms of the services being supplied by the collaboration of the systems;
- Component-based – the LIS are composed of the Person Management Service (PMS), Group Management Service (GMS), Membership Management Services (MMS), Course Management Service (CMS), Outcomes Management Service (OMS) and the Bulk Data Exchange Management Service (BDEMS);
- Behaviors and data models – the LIS are defined in terms of their behaviors and data models. The behaviors cause changes in the state of the data model and the state of the data model will only be altered as a result of a clearly defined behaviour;
- Multiple Bindings – the LIS information model is to be defined so that a range of different bindings can be made available. The bindings of immediate importance are to the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
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