IMS Common Cartridge Alliance
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:
- Demonstrations of common cartridge use
- Sample cartridges to open up and study
- Implementer tools and sample code for testing our implementation
- Conformance tests
- Webinars
- The latest versions of the spec
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.
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