Online grade books are expensive for ed tech companies to build, almost impossible for them to build well, and hard for faculty and students to learn. Here’s a recipe for using final and near-final interoperability standards to enable faculty and students to just use their same LMS grade book in every ed tech app.
Interoperability
This category covers the technical interoperability of educational technology, particularly standards-based integration.
Digital Badges Are Gaining Traction
Digital badges seem to be filling in the cracks for career readiness—and sometimes college readiness—that aren’t covered by formal degree and certificate programs.
A Flexible, Interoperable Digital Learning Platform: Are We There Yet?
Whether you call it NGDLE, an LMOS, a learning platform, or something else, people have been wanting a next-generation post-LMS for a long time. We finally have both the interoperability standards and the market incentives to make it possible—if the LMS vendors are willing to take a risk.
Recommended Viewing: Learning Analytics Webinar on Caliper and xAPI
What happens when you combine the IMS Caliper and SCORM’s xAPI learning analytics standards! You get xCaliper! Can the working groups pull the sword from the stone?
The IMS Is More Important Than You Think It Is
I have long argued that the development of technical interoperability standards for education are absolutely critical for enabling innovation and personalized learning environments. Note that I usually avoid those sorts of buzzwords—“innovation” and “personalized learning”—so when I use them here, I really mean them. If there are two fundamental lessons we have learned in the […]
The IMS’s New “Caliper” Learning Analytics Interoperability Framework Is Deeply Interesting
The IMS has announced the initial public release of something they call Caliper, which they characterize as a learning analytics interoperability framework. But it’s actually much, much more than that. In fact, it represents the functional core of something that my SUNY colleagues and I used to refer to as a Learning Management Operating System […]