IMS Content Packaging

Definition

IMS Content Packaging has the following objectives:

• allow transfert of e-learning contents from one system to an other (interoperability)
• allow to import/export contents into/from a [learning management system]. Therefore also be able to use an indepenant editing tool.

• IMS Content Packaging is also part of ADL/SCORM 1.2 and 1.3 (2004)

Package architecture

1. A zip file that contains various elements, e.g. HTML pages, pictures, Flash Animations, PPT (whatever, the idea is that you take formats that your client can handle)
2. A special file in the zip is the "manifest" containing:
   • a meta-data section
   • a resource list (i.e. all the other files plus resources on the Net (URLs)
   • an organizational section that describes the structure of how the elements can sequence.

Tools

Editors:

• http://www.reload.ac.uk/tools.html
• http://exelearning.org/

See also: Learning management systems.

References

• [IMS Global Learning Consortium]
• http://www.imsglobal.org/content/packaging/index.html