{"id":1877,"date":"2006-10-09T18:49:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T23:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=122"},"modified":"2006-10-09T18:49:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T23:49:59","slug":"common-cartridge-a-standard-for-learning-management-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/common-cartridge-a-standard-for-learning-management-software.html","title":{"rendered":"Common Cartridge &#8211; a standard for learning management software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/10\/09\/cartridge\">announced<\/a> that a group consisting of publishers and course software makers have created a standard format for online classes called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imsglobal.org\/commoncartridge.html\">Common Cartridge<\/a>, which promises to allow electronic resources to be used interchangeably within different learning management software.<\/p>\n<p>This presumes, of course, that the standard is accepted and implemented in the various software programs.\u00a0 The thought that several large publishers, including Pearson and McGraw-Hill, have taken part in creating the standard suggests that this may take hold.\u00a0 It is to the publisher&#8217;s benefit to only have to create course material once.<\/p>\n<p>This will also benefit the open source course software makers, as they won&#8217;t have to compete based on file formats, but on performance, features, and interface (as it should be).<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/~peters\/fos\/2006_10_08_fosblogarchive.html#116040709119420001\">Open Access News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been announced that a group consisting of publishers and course software makers have created a standard format for online classes called Common Cartridge, which promises to allow electronic resources to be used interchangeably within different learning management software. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/common-cartridge-a-standard-for-learning-management-software.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2928,2954,2982,2966,2971,2977],"tags":[3165,3166,3167,3168,3169,3170,3171],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-open-access","category-open-source","category-software","category-training","category-web-design","tag-learning-management-software","tag-mcgraw-hill","tag-online-classes","tag-open-source-course-software-makers","tag-pearson","tag-software-makers","tag-software-programs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-uh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}