Common cartridge
Common Cartridge is a specification being developed by the IMS Global Learning Consortium. Although Common Cartridge is intended to be an open source alternative to the proprietary Course Cartridge format used by Blackboard Inc., details of this specification remain exclusive to IMS members. The idea of the Common Cartridge is to create a package of learning material that will play on any of a number of learning management systems. Although the specification is officially a combination of previous IMS specifications, it is likely as well to include a DRM component. (Silvers)
The Common Cartridge format includes the following specifications:
- Content Packaging v1.2
- Question & Test Interoperability v1.2
- IMS Tools Interoperability Guidelines v1.0
- IEEE Learning Object Metadata v1.0
- SCORM v1.2 & 2004
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References
- IMS Common Cartridge Working Group
- Flash For Learning, Aaron Silvers.
- Common Cartridge Roadmap. MERLOT, 2007.
- The Common Cartridge Standard: Common, but how open Glyn Moody
- Video on Common Cartridge Sakai project
- Patents and Common Cartridge, Michael Feldstein, e-Literate
Why Teachers' Unions Should Demand Support For Common Cartridge, Michael Feldstein, e-Literate