IMS GLC announce its 2010 webinar series designed especially for participants of the IMS Community.
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| IMS Global Learning Consortium |
UPCOMING WEBINARS
Teachers’ use of IMS Common Cartridge- July 13, 2010, 10am EDT - Sign Up to Attend (Public Community Registration Required)
Presenters: Dr. Agueda Gras-Velazquez (European Schoolnet) and Kati Clements (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
During a Summer School organized by the ASPECT project, 40 mathematics and science teachers from Portugal, Lithuania, Romania and Portugal were asked to work with different content packaging standards. The teachers were very enthusiastic about Common Cartridge content packaging. After importing a CC package into Moodle, the teachers could remove parts that they did not need, edit the content and change the order of different resources. Many teachers requested instructions on how to adapt Moodle to use Common Cartridge packages and some teachers expressed an interest in using Common Cartridge to package their own content in order to share it with other teachers.
Before the Lisbon workshop, Agueda Gras-Velazquez, who organized the event, had anticipated that some teachers might be enthusiastic about Common Cartridge. However, while she thought teachers would appreciate the possibility of importing a cartridge into Moodle and then moving and/or changing some parts of the resource, she was unprepared for the high level of positive reaction that was witnessed. (more information on the ASPECT Summer School available at http://aspect-project.org/node/84)
This webinar will present the results of the ASPECT Summer School and explain why common cartridge is particularly well-suited to address teachers’ needs.
Run Course Content Anywhere - August 24, 2010
A persistent challenge, for the creators of course content, learning platform administrators, and instructors, has been that different learning platforms have needed different course content packaging. The way you had to assemble materials for one learning management system (LMS) was not necessarily going to work on another LMS. The IMS Global Learning Consortium has been working with a critical mass of content suppliers and LMS vendors on a standard called Common Cartridge. Come hear how this packaging convention has been implemented widely and how the promise of a universal solution is at hand.
Addressing Student Retention and Institution-specific Learning Technology Procurement- September 7, 2010
As the leader of your K-12 district's or higher education institution's e-learning efforts, what does IMS have to offer you in the areas of best practices to guide your learning technology selection and procurement decisions; and, how can IMS adoption practices aid in your ability to attract and retain e-learning students? Take a district or institutional assessment to gauge your current student retention best practices against a model created by an international group of e- learning leaders, and use this information to implement the IMS Student Induction to e-Learning adoption practice. Apply the IMS Enterprise Learning Systems and Applications Procurement adoption practice to help guide the selection and procurement of your school's learning management system - ensuring that the selection process addresses key functional, technical (including IMS interoperability standards) and end-user requirements that meet the needs of all stakeholders.
Learning Information Services - October 12, 2010
The IMS GLC Learning Information Services (LIS) specification is designed to simplify the integration of student information systems with e-learning systems e.g. learning management systems, assessment systems, etc. Deployments in Higher Education and K-12/Schools are now occurring from many SIS and LMS suppliers. Join us as we explain the LIS specification and its uses, and describe the conformance programme being established by IMS GLC.
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