Tomorrow I will be presenting a talk at the “Teachers Teaching Teachers about Technology” virtual conference.
Abstract
Teachers are often greatly limited in the educational technology they can use in their classes because it becomes increasingly complex to use on the web software from many different vendors. Students must get a separate account for each new system, teachers need to jump between systems to assess and grade student work and transfer grades between the different systems.
Thorough the IMS Global Learning Consortium (www.imsglobal.org), the marketplace is developing standards that will allow course rosters and roles to be moved from one system to another and for graded to be moved between systems without rewiring hand-copying of data between systems. The new standard is called ‘IMS Learning Tools Interoperability’. For example if your school uses Moodle and you would like to use www.chemvantage.org for Chemistry homework, you can simply ‘plug’ ChemVantage into Moodle and the rest is handled automatically.
This presentation will introduce IMS Learning Tools Interoperability at a very high level and show some demonstrations of it working with Sakai, Moodle, and Blackboard.
Speaker: Dr. Charles Severance
University of Michigan School of Information
http://www.dr-chuck.com/
twitter: @drchuck
Bio/Pictures: http://www.dr-chuck.com/dr-chuck/resume/bio.htm
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/csev/empowering-teachers-with-more-pluggable-educational-technology