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Common
Cartridge Video by Chuck Severance
Common
Cartridge Benefits
- Greater
choice of content: Enables
collections of learning resources of various types and sources.
- Reduces
vendor/platform lock-in: Establishes
course cartridge native formats endorsed by educational publishers, and
supports a wide variety of established content formats, eliminating
platform lock-in.
- Greater
assessment options: Explicitly
supports the most widely used standards for exchanging assessment items.
- Increases
flexibility, sharing and reuse: Fits within
the educational context of enabling instructors to assemble lesson
plans of various resources and publish those as reusable and changeable
packages that are easy to create, share, and improve.
Factors for
Success
- Based
on 10
years experience in learning content interoperability.
- Based
on the
most widely used interoperability standards for learning content and
assessment.
- Supported
by the
leading educational publishers, assessment organizations, and learning
platform
providers and leading open source/open content initiatives.
- Easy
to
implement and flexible.
- Enables
mapping
to things we use and understand: textbooks, lesson plans, courses.
- Supports
the
overwhelmingly predominant educational and training paradigm:
self-directed but
guided learning with an instructor in the loop, coordinated with
assessment and
online communal learning (discussions).
- Component
standards are in a very healthy state of improvement and evolution to
support
future needs.
CC v1.1 LMS Runtime
The Common Cartridge defines a new package interchange format for learning content, able to run on any compliant LMS platform. Version 1.0 supports the following features:
- Rich content
- html, xml
- web links
- media files (e.g., mpg, jpg, mp3)
- application files (e.g., Microsoft Office)
- Integrated assessments
- Multiple choice
(single or multiple response)
- True/false
- Essay
- Simple fill in the
blank
- Pattern match
- Discussion forums
- Metadata – both descriptive metadata for cartridges and roles-based for resources
- Authorization for
protected content
Future versions will
introduce:
- Web/enterprise integration with third-party tools and services
- Lesson plans
- Competency maps based on educational standards
- Accessibility support
Creating the Common Cartridge
Common Cartridge v1.0 is already available, along with a test tool for testing cartridges for compliance with the specification. The project group, made up of major publishers, LMS vendors, the open source community, and other interested parties, is now working on CCv1.1 which will add some exciting new features, such as seemless integration with web applications and eBooks using LTI. The CC Alliance provides a number of resources to help software vendors implementing the specification, content providers creating cartridges and user institutions and practitioners in harnessing the power of Common Cartridge.
The Common Cartridge builds upon
the widely
implemented IMS Content Packaging specification, adding support for the
following standards:
- Metadata
- ISO 15836:2003: Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (mapped to the corresponding elements in LOM)
- IEEE 1484.12.1-2002: Learning Object Metadata
- IEEE 1484.12.3-2005: LOM Schema binding (loose binding)
-
Content
- IMS Authorization Web Service v1.0
Further
Information
For information on Common Cartridge and participation in the project, please contact:
Kevin Riley
Senior Strategist for New Activities
IMS Global Learning Consortium
kriley@imsglobal.org
Tel: +44 (0)114 221 6662
For information on IMS GLC and the benefits of being a Contributing Member, please
contact:
Rob Abel
Chief Executive Officer
IMS Global Learning Consortium
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