Speaking of IMS…
The IMS wants your personal information before they’ll let you read their public standards.
IMS issues press release for new e-learning interoperability standards
If the new standards are written as poorly as this press release, it’s going to be 1,000 pages of useless spec.
IMS announces new QTI validation service
As I’ve mentioned before, it really gets in my craw that the IMS positions itself as a big player in creating and maintaining e-learning standards, yet keeps their doors closed to the public. How can it be a standard if people can’t get to it? Sheesh.
Link: Opening Up the IMS
Quote: There’s something fundamentally contradictory about open standards being developed behind closed doors.
Good news from the IMS Global Learning Consortium?
A press release issued today indicates the IMS Global Learning Consortium is piloting the use of Creative Commons licensing for some of their standards. This is excellent news for proponents of open standards, and will hopefully lead to more openness from the IMS.
The IMS Global Learning Consortium needs to loosen up!
I looked up the QTI specs on the IMS site and couldn’t believe the boldfaced notice I saw on the page: “HTML documents may be viewed online, but may not be printed without permission” (emphasis added).
Can you believe that? IMS is in the business of creating standards they want the whole world to use. These standards should be open, easily accessible and free from licensing constraints. Why on earth do they want to put silly notices like this on their site?