United States: Learning Application Interoperability Standards Get Vendor Boost.Byline: Mamta03 Two standards efforts from the IMS Global The IMS Global Learning Consortium (usually known as IMS) is a non-profit standards organization concerned with establishing interoperability for learning systems and learning content and the enterprise integration of these capabilities. Learning Consortium gained steam last week during Educause with support announcements coming from a number of high profile vendors, including SunGard Higher Education, Oracle, Jenzabar, Pearson, and Desire2Learn. IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. is a non-profit organization that develops interoperability standards for education technology. SunGard HE, Pearson, Jenzabar, and Oracle all said they would support the IMS Learning Information Services See Information Systems. (LIS LIS - Langage Implementation Systeme. A predecessor of Ada developed by Ichbiah in 1973. It was influenced by Pascal's data structures and Sue's control structures. A type declaration can have a low-level implementation specification. ) open standards in their product lines. LIS specifically addresses interactions and data exchange between learning systems and administrative, student, or human resource systems. Currently, enterprise integrations occur through numerous point-to-point links that are difficult to maintain and hinder upgrading to or inclusion of new applications. Use of the LIS standards should allow for more flexibility in how applications can be configured across the enterprise from a single master database. "Our goal is to reduce the cost and complexity of supporting user provisioning to numerous applications across the enterprise," said Curtiss Barnes, Oracle vice president for industry product strategy in education and research. "When an institution puts LIS in place, it can focus information technology resources on providing better information and service to institutional leaders instead of development and maintenance of an increasing proliferation of point-to-point integrations." "SunGard Higher Education is a strong supporter of open source and open standards," said David Murray, a SunGard HE vice president. "Interoperability is essential in our newly announced Open Digital Campus strategy, providing higher education institutions with more flexibility to shape how technology meets their evolving needs. Collaborating with IMS, we aim to enable greater choice on behalf of instructors in the tools they use to enhance the learning process for their students." Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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