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State of the art of LMS Platforms and Standards

Requirements for the Interoperability Academy

EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIGIT D2 – Interoperability UnitProject Officers:Georges LoboVictoria Kalogirou

Interoperability Academy

ISA2 action 2019.11

TRASYS INTERNATIONALProject team:

Edouard DumonceauBarry Kruger

Katarina ManojlovicLudovic Mayot

Cristina Ivan

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State of the art of LMS Platforms and Standards. Requirements for the Interoperability Academy Contents

1. Introduction and context background

2. LMS Market Trends

3. Functional requirements

4. Options and recommendations

5. Next Steps

1.Introduction and context background

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The Interoperability Academy, ISA² aims

• to boost digital skills;

• to minimise digital skills gap;

• to train public sector employees;

• to increase digital interoperable public services across borders and sectors.

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The Interoperability Academy, ISA² will help

• to further promote and share interoperability solutions;

• to enhance collaboration;

• to raise awareness about the interoperable solutions under ISA and ISA² programmes;

• to include and reuse interoperability solutions provided by ISA².



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The Interoperability Academy, ISA² will provide LMS based

learning support for...

• Policy developers;

• Legal services;

• EIF ambassadors;

• Officials from regional and local governments working on public administration;

• Solutions Architects;

• Technical staff responsible involved in the development.



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The Interoperability Academy, ISA² is an eGovernment milestone

enabling public services to become....

• More cost-effective,

• More efficient,

• Quicker,

• More advanced public services,

• Transparent and versatile .



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IoP Academy will engage with similar initiatives at the national or international level.

IoP Academy

Scottish

Digital

Academy

UNU

eGOV

EKDDA

eGAITU

Academy



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✓ Academy aims to digitally empower public sector

employees

✓ Providing a central, user-friendly online learning

platform that will provide training in a structured,

targeted, and specialised manner

✓ Learning paths and differentiation lend structure to

training and courses

✓ European public administrations and EU

delegations around the world

✓ Varied professional roles

✓ Diverse and distributed audience



2.LMS Market Trends

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The following model provides a strong methodology for the analysis of the

corporate LMS market:

2.LMS Market Trends

MarketsandMarkets™, May 2018


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A number of factors are driving adoption of LMS approaches in work-based

learning and the corporate sphere:

• The increase in the usage of discrete and modular e-learning tools;

• Technological advancement in learning methodologies;

• The increased adoption of handheld devices (tablets and mobile phones);

• The evolution of more interactive learning experiences Augmented

Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality( VR) and the consequent move towards

experiential learning, instead of classroom training.

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When developing implementation strategy for the Interoperability Academy,

the following key market trends should be taken into consideration:

1. Open source and open architecture

2. Cloud and Saas deployment models

3. Open educational resources (OER) & content curation

4. Learning ‘on-the-go’ – micro- and nano-learning

5. AI & adaptive learning

6. The growth of learning analytics

7. Social learning and gamification

State of the art of LMS Platforms and Standards. Requirements for the Interoperability Academy 2.LMS Market Trends

3.Functional Requirements

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LMS FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

LMS vendors offer a wide variety of functionality to suit a variety of

purposes and fit into a number of educational contexts.

As the programme moves into the commissioning/acquisition

phase, detailed functional requirements are required to ensure

that the resulting platform solution matches the needs and

requirements of its users.

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LMS FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

The recommended functional requirements have been categorised

into the following areas :

User/learner experience (UX)

Content management

Learning Management

Data, analytics and reporting

Communication and collaboration

State of the art of LMS Platforms and Standards. Requirements for the Interoperability Academy 3. Functional requirements

4.Options and recommendations

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4.Options and recommendations

This report provides the following recommendations:

1. The ‘Buy or Build’ Question

2. Cost-Benefit Analysis

3. Procurement Models: Ensuring ‘best-fit’

4. Collect, manage and exploit interoperable

learner data

5. Measure impact: gather evidence and

inform strategy through piloting

6. Ensure flexible and portable content

formats

7. Develop sustainable open licensing

models


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Open source

Moodle

SaaS

Platform

Proprietary

Hosted

Platform

Three representative

LMS products

State of the art of LMS Platforms and Standards. Requirements for the Interoperability Academy 4.Options and recommendations

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Option 1. Standing for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning, Environment, Moodle is

the world’s most popular learning platform, with hundreds of millions of users worldwide

such as schools, universities, non-profit organisations, enterprise organisations, and

Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector.

✓Detailed reporting and logs

✓Convenient file management

✓Collaborative tools and activities

✓Manage user roles and permissions

✓Embed external resources

✓Multilingual capability

✓Multiple progress tracking options

✓Multimedia integration

✓Customisable site design and layout

✓Bulk course creation


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Option 2. Canvas is one of the market leaders in the cloud/SaaS domain and provides the

industry-leading platform for millions of passionate students and teachers. Most of

colleges, universities, and school districts are currently utilising the Canvas LMS.

✓Integrated media reporting

✓Customisable user profiles

✓Share resources

✓LTI integrations

✓Graphic analytics reporting

engine

✓Copy and paste links

✓Analytics

✓Canvass app centre


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Option 3. Brightspace is used by learners in higher education, K12, and the enterprise

sector, including the Fortune 1000 and is available also as an out of the box self-hosted

platform

✓Brightspace Learning Environment

✓Video Assignments

✓Brightspace Pulse

✓Virtual Classrooms

✓e-Portfolio

✓Assignment Grader

✓Learning Repository


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Optional Standards

Mandatory Standards

SCORM® by ADL

E-Portfolio Learning Tools Interoperability™ (LTI)

Content Packaging / Metadata

x-Api(formerly known as the ‘Tin Can API’)

Common Cartridge®

QTI®

Training and Learning Architecture (TLA)

Aviation Industry CBT Consortium (AICC)

Section 508

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5.Next steps

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5. Next steps

1. Consolidating and migrating content and resources to

central repository

2. Distinguishing knowledge and information assets, from

instructional content

3. Design and development of initial courseware (ie EIF e-

learning course)

4. Mapping new knowledge, skills and competencies to

established frameworks (ESCO)


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administrative burdens.

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