Competencies & Academic Standards Exchange

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Summary

The IMS Global Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange^® (CASE^®) specification is used to exchange information about learning and education competencies. CASE also transmits information about rubrics, criteria for performance tasks, which may or may not be aligned to competencies. By implementing CASE, it is possible to electronically exchange competency definitions so that applications, systems, and tools can readily access and manage this data. Having universal identifiers for education competencies makes it possible for any of these tools or applications to easily share information between the systems. These tools may include learning management systems, assessment tools, curriculum management applications, certificate and competency-based evaluation systems and any other tool, process or content that aligns to or references a competency or framework. This framework for education competencies makes it possible to define relationships within a competency framework or between two separate frameworks.

CASE provides a framework for provisioning and transmitting all of the following:

	Competency Framework Documents - original competencies or academic standards documents
	Competency Framework Items - statements of what the learner will know and be able to do
	Competency Framework Associations - relationships between entire standard sets or individual standards and courses
	Competency Framework Rubrics - instruments used to delineate performance expectations around a task, product or performance which may or may not be aligned to standards

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Public Documents

Introduction to Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE)
Real-World Scenarios
What is Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE)? (presentation)
Achieving Interoperability with IMS Global CASE and Extended Transcript (Presentation by IMS members at 2017 CBExchange)

CASE in Action

Procurement Guidance

A Brief Primer on Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange Conformance for End-User and Buyers of Educational Content and Learning Platforms
Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange Checklist and RFP Language: An explanation of language to include in a procurement document and questions to ask suppliers.

Specification Documents

CASE 1.0 Specification (Information Model)
CASE 1.0 Specification (REST API)
CASE 1.0 Best Practices and Implementation Guide
CASE 1.0 Conformance Guide
CASE 1.0 Context Description Notes
CASE 1.0 Context File

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Competencies & Academic Standards Exchange