#learning tools interoperability

IMS Global Launches LTI Advantage Program

Source: https://www.moodlenews.com/2017/ims-global-launches-lti-advantage-program/ https://www.imsglobal.org/lti-advantage-overview The Learning Tools Interoperability standard (LTI) is a promising common language for platforms that host “tools,” or applications that can be part of a technology-based learning intervention. Under LTI, a system like Moodle can offer students activities hosted…

'Open Innovation Initiative' By Blackboard To Lure Open Source Developers #MoodleNews #EdTech

With the likely goal of enticing more learning developers to adopt its platform, Blackboard has made a series of announcements and releases to make it easier to code functionality for the commercial LMS. They are wrapped into what Blackboard calls the “Open Innovation Initiative” that gives developers access to REST and LTI integrations to expand Blackboard services without upfront costs. REST is…

Cloud Future Ready, Blackboard Learn Is Certified With Interoperability Standard #MoodleNews

Blackboard Inc., the EdTech colossus behind the eponymous Blackboard Learn LMS, ruler of North American colleges, has issued a release to make announce that both their server and cloud versions are fully compatible with the Learning Tools Interoperability standard, version 2.0, by IMS Global. The LTI standard enables LMS and similar learning content providers and customers to source and deliver…

Most Disruptive EdTech Learning Tools For OneNote Available #moodlenews

Forbes blogger Jordan Shapiro reviewed the hackaton-born add-in for popular software Microsoft OneNote and wrote: When (…) the accessibility lead for Windows for education showed me the Tools, I was blown away. Learning Tools for OneNote was originally created for dyslexics, but it is game changer for everybody. It illustrates just how powerful the education technologies of the future can and…

#Moodle 3.1 Enables LTI® Specification For Courses And Activities #moodlenews

Moodle is taking a decisive step toward a standardized global practice by enabling Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) for courses made in Moodle 3.1. The LTI specification creates a unified set of guidelines about the integration of “rich learning applications” in platforms such as Learning Management Systems, of which Moodle is a prominent example. Moodle could be both supplier and user of…