IMS Content Packaging

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Definition

IMS Content Packaging has the following objectives:

  • allow transfert of e-learning contents from one system to an other (interoerability)
  • 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:

See also: Learning management systems.

References