Open, Agile, Outcomes-Focused Next Generation Academic Enterprise

How do K-20 institutions and educational systems maximize the effectiveness of their IT infrastructure? Institutional and system-wide adoption of IMS interoperability standards establishes the foundation for the next generation, delivering the following benefits:

• Agility: Instantaneous integration of a wide variety of learning tools, applications, and content into the academic enterprise without lock-in to a single vendor solution

 

• Coherence: A seamless online environment for all users (teachers, student, parents, administrators) across all learning applications and mobile platforms

 

• Improvement: Actionable learning outcomes and analytics across a wide variety of learning tools, applications, and content that will continuously improve personalization, achievement, and retention

 

• Leverage: Ability to easily integrate to hosted applications system-wide and community-developed learning tools, applications, and content across vendor platforms

 

• Efficiency: Changing the focus of effort from custom integrations to continuous improvement of teaching and learning