IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Workshop

Thursday 1 December 2011

10.00am - 3.15pm

Dr Charles Severance, IMS

Today's education market includes a growing number of high quality, web-based applications that enhance teaching and learning. These applications range from general communication tools for chat and virtual classrooms to domain-specific learning engines for particular subjects like mathematics or history. Ideally, any Learning Management System (LMS) ought to provide access to these myriad learning applications. It ought to be possible to mix-and-match these applications within the context of any given course. To this end, some LMS vendors have developed proprietary extension frameworks which make it possible to "plug-in" external applications. Instructors and students navigate into the learning applications by traversing carefully crafted hyperlinks, and data flows between the two systems via custom communication protocols.

In this workshop, Dr Charles Severance will demonstrate the ease in which learning ‘tools' can be integrated into LMS's (consumers) and will ‘walk' developers through the process of enabling their learning tools and LMSs with LTI. Sample code (php) will be provided to support the workshop.

At the end of the workshop, participants will have a solid understanding of the LTI specification and how to use it to enable their learning environments and tools.

The workshop will commence at the end of the international keynotes and aims to finish in time for the Learning Impact Awards.