IMS Common Cartridge Alliance

By zach · Monday, January 28th, 2008

I just signed up as a dues-paying member of the IMS Common Cartridge Alliance. IMS CC is a standard that has been evolving for several years, with the ultimate aim of creating a single format for publishers to create course materials that can be loaded into any learning management system.

I wrote the underpinnings of IMS CC support for Sakai over a year ago while the spec was still a fledgling. I have hope that I can complete the work that I started, and make Sakai a first-class Common Cartridge citizen.

With my new membership, I have access to:

I’m excited, but allow me a ten-second rant: if the success of information standards hinges upon their dissemination and use (as I am convinced it does), the IMS Global Learning Consortium is clearly brain damaged for locking their specifications up behind a pay wall and a “do not disclose” directive.

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By Andrew Evans on February 5th, 2008 at 4:00 am

Hi Zach,

According to this PowerPoint slide IMS are going to make a public release of the specs in March. Not sure if testing tools, etc are going to be available to public users though.

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

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