Simon Booth and Stephen Vickers are tireless champions of practical interoperability.
I’ve had the great pleasure of watching their double act at events like Dev8ed.
Dev8ed Interview: Stephen Vickers on Vimeo.
The IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) specification is supported by all major VLE platforms (including Blackboard, Moodle, WebCT, Desire2Learn, and Sakai) and offers a secure method to launch external tools and content from within the VLE.
This provides a way of extending a VLE to use tools that better meet a teachers need, or preference, an ideal solution for providing institutional support to tools which are only used by a small minority of staff (whether they are hosted internally or externally).
On Wednesday 14th November 12:30 – 13:30 Simon and Stephen will be presenting a live session that will discuss how the JISC-funded ceLTIc:sharing project is evaluating the use of LTI to provide a shared service for institutions interested in evaluating WebPA.
It will include a demonstration of linking to the tool from Blackboard Learn 9 and Moodle, as well as how the outcomes service along with the unofficial memberships and setting extensions are being used to enhance this integration in a VLE-independent way.
The fee for Innovating e-Learning 2012 remains unchanged at £50.
Current JISC projects are eligible for one free place, please contact Rob Englebright for details: r.englebright@jisc.ac.uk
