LEARNING TOOLS INTEROPERABILITY – A NEW STANDARD FOR INTEGRATION OF DISTANCE LEARNING PLATFORMS

For information technology in education there is always an issue of re-usage of electronic educational resources, their transferring possibility from one virtual learning environment to another. Previously, standardized sets of files were used to serve this purpose, for example, SCORM-packages. In t...

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Main Author: Oleksandr A. Shcherbyna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Digitalisation of Education of the NAES of Ukraine 2015-06-01
Series:Інформаційні технології і засоби навчання
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Online Access:http://journal.iitta.gov.ua/index.php/itlt/article/view/1246
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Summary:For information technology in education there is always an issue of re-usage of electronic educational resources, their transferring possibility from one virtual learning environment to another. Previously, standardized sets of files were used to serve this purpose, for example, SCORM-packages. In this article the new standard Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is reviewed, which allows users from one environment to access resources from another environment. This makes it possible to integrate them into a single distributed learning environment that is created and shared. The article gives examples of the practical use of standard LTI in Moodle learning management system using External tool and LTI provider plugins.
ISSN:2076-8184