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Acronym |
Full Name |
Purpose |
Description |
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ADL–SCORM |
Sharable Content Object Reference Model |
Technical infrastructure allowing content objects to be easily shared across multiple learning delivery environments. |
The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative has developed the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) to incorporate many of emerging standards and specifications (e.g. LOM, IMS CP) into one content model. SCORM Version 1.2 introduces the concepts of content packaging. |
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IMS CP |
IMS Content Packaging |
Provides the functionality to describe and package learning materials. |
The Content Packaging Specification is aimed primarily at content producers, learning management system vendors, computing platform vendors, and learning service providers. Learning materials described and packaged using the IMS Content Packaging XML format should be interoperable with any tool that supports the specification. |
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IMS DR |
IMS Digital Repositories |
Provides recommendations for interoperation of the most common repository functions. |
On the broadest level, this specification defines digital repositories as being any collection of resources that are accessible via a network without prior knowledge of the structure of the collection. |
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IMS Enterprise |
IMS Enterprise |
Promotes exchange of data between different systems. |
The objective of the IMS Enterprise Information Model is to define a standardized set of structures that can be used to exchange data between different systems. These structures provide the basis for standardized data bindings that allow software developers and implementers to create Instructional Management processes that interoperate across systems developed independently by various software developers. |
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IMS LIP |
IMS Learner Information Package |
Supports the exchange of learner information among different systems. |
The specification supports the exchange of learner information among learning management systems, human resource systems, student information systems, enterprise e-learning systems, knowledge management systems, resume repositories and other systems used in the learning process. |
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IMS Learning Design |
IMS Learning Design |
Supports the use of a wide range of pedagogies in online learning |
Using this approach only one set of learning design and runtime tools need to be implemented in order to support a wide range of pedagogies. |
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IMS QTI |
IMS Question and Test Interoperability |
Proposes an XML data structure for describing questions and tests. |
The specification has been produced to allow the interoperability of content within assessment systems. QTI is widely supported within the industry. This specification will be useful for publishers, certification authorities, teachers, trainers, publishers and creators of assessments, and the software vendors whose tools they use. |
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IMS RDCEO |
IMS Reusable Definition of Competency or Educational Objective |
Provides a means to create common understandings of competencies that appear as part of a learning or career plan, as learning pre-requisites, or as learning outcomes. |
The information model in this specification can be used to exchange these definitions between learning systems, human resource systems, learning content, competency or skills repositories, and other relevant systems. |
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IMS Simple Sequencing |
IMS Simple Sequencing |
Defines a method for representing the intended behaviour of an authored learning experience so that any learning technology system (LTS) can sequence discrete learning activities in a consistent way. |
The specification defines the required behaviours and functionality that conforming systems must implement. It incorporates rules that describe the branching or flow of learning activities through content according to the outcomes of a learner's interactions with content. The representation of sequencing may be interchanged between systems designed to deliver instructional activities to learners. |