OLNet Report: Integrating Cohere into Moodle Using IMS Basic LTI

I am very honored to have been selected as an OLNet Expert fellow:

http://olnet.org/fellowships

My proposal was to bring my interest in interoperability for learning applications and content and help OLNet in its investigation of applicability and use of Open Educational Resources (OER).

We decided that the best way to structure my fellow work was to have several visits to the Open University to do joint work. My first visit to the Open University was July 8-11, 2010. In this visit, I worked with Simon Buckingham Shum, Michelle Bacher, and others to design and build IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability Provider for the Cohere idea mapping tool (cohere.open.ac.uk).

The video includes an overview of the visit and demonstration of Cohere integrated into Moodle using Basic LTI.

http://www.vimeo.com/12700689/

If you want to know more about IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability, please see:

http://www.imsglobal.org/developers/BLTI/

I want to thank Simon, Michelle, Karen, Tanh, and many others for their kind hospitality while I was visiting.

I very much enjoyed staying at the Beech Cottage Bed and Breakfast in Milton Keynes. It was close to the central station and yet felt like I was spending my evenings in the countryside. I liked the Beech Cottage so well that I wrote a review for Google Maps.