[Athen] Common Cartridge Alliance[?]

[Ron Stewart]

I would also look to the Safari X collaboration in the publishing space for
another example of this.  I do not belive they intend though that the
curriculum modules will plug into other vendors platforms.

Ron Stewart

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Pratik Patel
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:31 AM
To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'
Subject: Re: [Athen] Common Cartridge Alliance[?]

Simply put, Cartredges are electronic textbooks but with far more
multimedia/rich content in them.  Content cartredges can be developed and
then be plugged into a CMS or a LMS.  Until now, each LMS has had its own
proprietary cartredge format.  This set of testing activities allow
providers to develop and attempt to plug-in CC's into LMS.  I'm assuming
that Angel will be one of the first to try.

Pratik

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Martinengo
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:44 AM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] Common Cartridge Alliance[?]

So what exactly is a cartridge, and how does it relate to actual
educational content (words, pictures, that kind of stuff)?
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/01/prweb606161.htm

Learning Industry Leaders Agree to be Initial Investors in Testing
Platform for Open Standards-based Digital Learning Materials
IMS Global Learning Consortium announces development of community
source software for testing content in the Common Cartridge format.

Lake Mary, FL (PRWEB) January 22, 2008 -- The IMS Global Learning
Consortium (IMS GLC) today announced the launch of a new project that
will produce a community source testing tool for the Common Cartridge
(CC) format. Nine industry-leading organizations have agreed to be the
anchor investors in the project, sponsored by the Common Cartridge
Alliance. Those organizations include: ANGEL Learning, eCollege, JISC,
McGraw-Hill, Microsoft, The Open University United Kingdom, Pearson
Education and Ucompass.com. [...]

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