Key Takeaways

  1. Three corporate LMS interoperability specifications ensure your e-learning courseware works properly with your LMS:
  2. A collection of academic LMS interoperability specifications ensures your online content, teaching tools, and LMS can exchange data:
    • Learning Tools Interoperability
    • Question & Test Interoperability
    • OneRoster
    • Learning Information Services
    • Common Cartridge
    • Thin Common Cartridge
    • Caliper Analytics
    • Open Badges.
  3. Three standards support data sharing among the various learning technologies, including the LMS, used in business, government, and professional associations
    • the xAPI specification
    • the Competency and Skills System
    • the vision for a total learning architecture.
  4. Accessibility standards like Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Section 508 work with assistive devices to make software applications usable to more people with visual, physical, auditory, and cognitive challenges.
  5. Security and data privacy are key concerns for any information system, including your LMS.