ims specifications: apis for the education technology

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IMS Specifications:APIs for the Education Technology Interoperability Ecosystem for HED

Colin Smythe (IMS Chief Architect)[email protected]

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LMS

SIS

makerspace

Digital Content

CALIPER Analytics Events

Provisioning

Common Source ID

Provisioning

EduAPI

Provisioning

Administrative Data

Grades

Provisioning

LTI-A Launch &

Data Exchange

Learning Record Warehouse

EduAPI is a set of industry standard extensible APIs to

support user provisioning, common

source ID and administrative data

exchange

Unified Data Model

Usage Data Usage Data

Card Access System

AnalyticsProcessing




Objectives of the APIs• To enable Interoperability for the transfer of

educational data for Higher Education (data in motion).

• Abstract model to separate the service solution from the technology solution

• Provide off-the-shelf code libraries and reference implementations to ease wide-scale adoption

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IMS Global Learning Information Services (LIS) v2.0

Theinformationarchitecture for learning




Course Planning & Scheduling• Uses the LIS API to enable the SIS to provide

the Planning & Scheduling (PAS) system with the requirements

• Use iCAL to realise the Event Service for the notification of the created schedules




• Linking the Student Information System (SIS) to the Learning Management System (LMS) for K-12 institutions– Class Enrollment

– Exchanging Gradebooks

– Provisioning of Learning/Teaching Resources• Common Cartridge/Thin Common Cartridge

• LTI

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IMS Service-based Specifications

• We provide APIs for:

– Learning Information Services (LIS)

– OneRoster

– Course Planning & Scheduling (CPS)

– LTI/LTI Advantage

– Competencies & Academic Standards Exchange (CASE)

– OpenBadges

– LTI Research Search

– Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)

– Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR)

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What IMS Means When Creating a Specification for an API

• Information Model• Binding Description• Conformance & Certification• OpenAPI representation

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Modelling Workflow

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UML Authoring

Tool

‘.xmi’Eclipse/Papyrus

‘.txmi’

‘servicexmi.xsd’

‘.json/.yaml’

SwaggerEditor

Code files

XSLTransform

XSLTransform

OpenAPIfiles

Other artifacts(inc. profiled/localized versions)




Conformance & Certification

• This is an essential part of the development of a specification and sustaining the relevance of the specification– Service Provider Certification– Consumer Certification– Data Validation

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Key Recommendations

• Keep the scope focused– For HED, what is the first interoperability problem

to solve for Europe/Your Country– Something not Everything

• Be successful within 12 months i.e. this time next year– Initial solutions being demonstrated/used

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Questions & Comments

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