IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Question and Test Interoperability Conformance Community
Common Cartridge Alliance will provide community tools for QTI conformance and online product catalog
 

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Lake Mary, Florida, USA – 9 July 2008 – The IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) today announced new support that will allow vendors of products that implement the IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) standards, and the users of such products, to validate conformance.  Results of conformance tests to application profiles approved by the IMS GLC will be published in an online catalog on the IMS GLC web site.

The new QTI community will be offered as a component of the Common Cartridge Alliance (see http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/alliance.html ) and will be managed and administered under the policies and procedures for development of and conformance to IMS GLC application profiles. The new QTI community will address conformance of both the currently released QTI v1.2 and also the draft QTI v2.1, which is currently out for public comment. Conformance marks will be issued by IMS GLC for use by product suppliers designating specific product versions that meet conformance to specific application profiles. These marks will also be published in the publically available online catalog.

“IMS is very pleased with the broad adoption of QTI as both an architecture for assessment systems and an interoperability specification,” said Rob Abel, Chief Executive Officer of IMS GLC. “The investment made by the IMS members in the Common Cartridge Alliance will now allow IMS to provide a verification of claims made with respect to QTI by numerous suppliers around the world.”

Interested parties should contact QTI@imsglobal.org .  In addition, IMS GLC will be sponsoring a gathering of the QTI community during the Testfest at its next quarterly meeting in Birmingham UK, 15-18 September - see http://www.imsglobal.org/sept2008meeting.html

IMS Global is supported by over 120 organizations – the world’s leaders in educational and learning technology, including leading learning technology product suppliers and publishers, leading institutions of learning and training, and leading government and professional consortia. Current Contributing Members of IMS GLC are listed at http://www.imsglobal.org/members.html .

About IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC)
IMS Global Learning is a global, nonprofit, member organization that strives to enable the growth and impact of learning technology in the education and corporate learning sectors worldwide. IMS GLC members provide leadership in shaping and growing the learning industry through community development of interoperability and adoption practice standards and recognition of the return on investment from learning and educational technology. For more information, including the world's most comprehensive set of learning technology interoperability standards, information on the annual Learning Impact conference and awards program, and free community resources for learning technology leaders, visit www.imsglobal.org.