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A rough guide to IMS Learning Design
In late November 2006, we will be adding some basic explanatory text here. In the meantime, please see the links below and explore the related links (at the right hand side of the tagviewer) for some introductory materials prepared by others.
IMS Learning Design can seem obtuse to the non-initiated. A few links that help to clarify the basics are:
- What Is IMS Learning Design? | CETIS standards briefing paper by Ann Jeffery and Sarah Currier, Dec 5 2003
- IMS Learning Design: what's in it for the teacher? (interview with Dai Griffiths by Riina Vuorikari, 28. March 2003)
- UNFOLD: A brief introduction to Learning Design
- A Review of Learning Design: Concept, Specifications and Tools - report for the JISC E-learning Pedagogy Programme; Sandy Britain, May 2004 [ MSWord file 192 KB ]
The IMS Global Consortium is an organisation composed of commercial and academic institutions which creates specifications for distributed learning. These include IMS Metadata, IMS Content Packaging, IMS Simple Sequencing, and IMS QTI which together form the basis of the SCORM application profile.
IMS recognised that there was a need to go beyond providing content, and to provide a specification for the description of learning activities. Rather than develop a new specification it adopted the Open University of the Netherlands' EML (Educational Modelling Language). The detailed structure of EML has changed substantially in its transformation to IMS Learning Design, but the basic concepts remain the same. At its core is a description of how people take up roles and then carry out activities with resources. This description can then be fed into an application, which delivers the activities through the web, and coordinates the activities of the learners and teachers through the duration of the course.
UNFOLD: A brief introduction to Learning Design
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