IMS Annual Report

Creatng the FUTURE EdTech Ecosystem TOGETHER 2018 ANNUAL REPORT Fiscal Results and Progress

2017 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 1 Message from the CEO and the Chairman

To IMS Global Stakeholders Worldwide: We are pleased to present the annual report for calendar and fscal year 2018, the 13th consecutve year of growth for the IMS Global Learning Consortum. This report features some of the highlights of the progress within the IMS community during 2018. The IMS vision of seamlessly integrated educatonal applicatons that work together to improve educatonal experiences is shaping both the present and the future. Thousands of hours and millions of dollars of investment made by IMS members (imsglobal.org/members), now involving more than 4,400 leaders across suppliers, universites, school districts, and states worldwide, have made IMS technical standards a pervasive element across K-20 educatonal technology. IMS has become one of the largest and best-resourced technology collaboratons. Every day IMS members are putng in place a new interoperable fabric to enable and support diverse needs for innovaton and educatonal transformaton. As of December 31, 2018, over 490 organizatons are now collaboratng via IMS Global, including 50 new member organizatons that joined in 2018. The annual IMS revenues rose 15% to over $5.4 million. The IMS conformance program surpassed 1,600 certfcatons since its incepton in 2009 with 523 certfcatons in 2018 alone. Leading suppliers are using IMS standards in service to thousands of universites and school districts worldwide, with millions of integrated app launches and data events every month. Most importantly, universites, school districts, teachers, and students have benefted with beter integrated, more innovatve, and efectve digital products featuring tmely data and insights. IMS believes that the challenges and solutons in educaton are best shared across all levels of educaton: K-12, higher educaton, and lifelong learning. At the votng membership level, IMS is split 50/50 across suppliers and insttutonal organizatons. It is also a 50/50 split among higher educaton and K-12 representaton. This is a powerful formula that ensures IMS is innovatng by achieving a high return on investment across all stakeholders. The collaboraton across the K-12, higher educaton and corporate educaton sectors in IMS is resultng in the creaton of substantally beter ways for a student to tell their story and link their accomplishments to career and life opportunites. Examples of breakthrough IMS cross-sector work that is enabling this beter future include Open Badges 2.0, Comprehensive Learner Record, and Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange® (CASE®). In 2018, IMS began some historic collaboratve investments that will make it even easier for insttutons and suppliers to leverage the connected ecosystem and to achieve even deeper levels of seamless integraton, including the 1EdTech Ecosystem Initatve and the CASE Network. As we enter 2019, the need to innovate in the delivery of educaton in both formal and informal setngs has never been higher and will contnue to grow. Working closely with our many partners in the sector, IMS will be working diligently to ensure that every classroom is digital on day one, every faculty member has access to actonable insights, and every student has the means to compile a lifetme of meaningful educatonal experiences. The future of educaton is in your hands through the IMS collaboraton. Thank you for your leadership!

2017 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 2 LEADING the advancement of educatonal technology and innovaton and CREATING VALUE for educatonal insttutons for over 20 Years 2018 AT-A-GLANCE

1EdTech & CASE Network Announced and began work on two major collaboratve initatves that will make it radically easier for school districts to make digital resources and applicatons available to teachers and students, and for districts, states, and edtech suppliers to align learning standards and edtech products. Both projects are set to launch in 2019.

App Vetng & Privacy Alliance Created a new community-driven process to examine and share informaton about the data privacy supported by educatonal applicatons. The IMS App Vetng service ensures that a minimum standard of privacy and security is met and provides assurance that the informaton gathered by these educatonal applicatons is being used responsibly.

Caliper Analytcs v1.1 Published a major upgrade of the leading learning analytcs interoperability standard. Caliper provides a framework for standardizing the collecton of learning actvity data from multple systems and the disseminaton of learning analytcs.

Open Badges 2.0 Certfed all of the leading digital badge issuing platorms for the new OBv2 standard. This set of innovatve products and companies are providing the leadership that will make it possible to implement new educatonal models at scale by making it easy to adopt a beter educatonal credental.

Partner Collaboratons Established agreement with EUNIS (European University Informaton Systems) to work together to advance technology infrastructures and promote teaching and learning excellence across Europe. Started program with New Markets Venture Partners that is open to all venture capital frms to help early and growth-stage edtech startups partcipate in IMS and streamline their path to become market leaders.

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 3 Becoming one of the LARGEST & MOST INFLUENTIAL member-based standards consortum in the world and the only organizaton achieving pervasive edtech standards adopton across K-20 & corporate educaton

50 + NET NEW MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS ADDED IN 2018

492 523 MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS (AND GROWING) PRODUCT CERTIFICATIONS IN 2018 $5,496,989 RECORD LEVELS OF REVENUE GROWTH FOR THE 13TH YEAR IN A ROW $8,008,096 2018 NET ASSETS

MEMBERSHIP HAS INCREASED 19.23% CAGR OVER THE LAST 13 YEARS REVENUES HAVE GROWN 13.24% OVER THE LAST 13 YEARS

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 4 Creatng a verifed ecosystem of innovatve, plug-and-play, and data-rich edtech products based on open standards via the investment and commitment of our CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS

HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Academic Center for Computng & Media Studies, Kyoto University Southern New Hampshire University/College for America American Public University System SURFmarket bv Arizona State University Univeritat Oberta de Catalunya Bill & Melinda Gates Foundaton University of Britsh Columbia Brandman University University of California San Diego Brigham Young University University of California System Brigham Young University - Idaho University of Central Florida Board of Trustees California State University, Ofce of the Chancellor University of Florida Capella University University of Kentucky Colorado State University Online University of Maryland University College Colorado Technical University University of Maryland, Baltmore County Cyber University University of Michigan Framingham State University University of Notre Dame ICT & Systems Development, Umeå University University of Phoenix Indiana University University of Toronto Jisc University of Wisconsin Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) University of Wisconsin Extension Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatcs University of Wisconsin System Adminstraton Madison College: Digital Credentals Insttute Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges Northcentral University Western Governors University Online Educaton Center of OUJ Wichita State University Ofce for Workforce, Professional and Open University Community Educaton Oregon State University Pennsylvania State University Purdue University Research Center for Computng & Multmedia Studies, Hosei University

K-12 SCHOOLS & DISTRICTS

Alief Independent School District Austn Independent School District Henry County Schools Baltmore County Public Schools Houston Independent School District Bibb County School District Idaho Digital Learning Broward County Public Schools Katy Independent School District Chicago Public Schools Keller Independent School District Clayton County Public Schools Laramie County School District #1 Colorado Virtual Academy Lee County Public Schools Crosstown High School Mastery Transcript Consortum Deer Park Independent School District Neosho School District DeKalb County Schools New York City Department of Educaton District School Board of Pasco County North Allegheny School District Edina Public Schools Orange County School District Escambia County School District Park Hill School District Fayete County Public Schools - GA Pitsburgh Public Schools Fayete County Public Schools - KY Polk County Public Schools FLVS - Florida Virtual School School District of Palm Beach County Forsyth County Schools School District of Philadelphia Fulton County Schools School District of Pickens County Grapevine Colleyville ISD Seatle Public Schools Gwinnet County Public Schools Spring Branch Independent School District Hall County Board of Educaton Volusia County Schools Harford County Public School Wisconsin eSchool Network Inc.

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 5 GOVERNMENT / STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES

College voor Examens New Meridian Corporaton (PARCC Consortum) Delaware Department of Educaton New South Wales Department of Educaton Georgia Department of Educaton New Zealand Ministry of Educaton Kennisnet Foundaton Norwegian Directorate for Educaton and Training KERIS Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortum, State of Washington Maryland State Department of Educaton South Carolina Department of Educaton Michigan Collaboraton Hub (fduciary of the Michigan Data Hub State of Michigan Department of Educaton Minnesota Department of Educaton, Division of State of Wisconsin Department of Public Instructon Research & Assessment University of Kansas Achievement and Assessment Insttute Montana Ofce of Public Instructon - Montana Digital Academy Vetenskaprådet

SUPPLIERS

Abre LearningMate Solutons Private Limited Accelerate Learning LearnPlatorm AccelerEd Lumen Learning ACT, Inc. McGraw-Hill Educaton AEFIS Measured Progress Aspire/Ability Microsof Blackboard, Inc. Moodle BNED LoudCloud, LLC Motvis Learning BPS Bildungsportal Sachsen GmbH Mozilla Foundaton Campus Labs Natonal Student Clearinghouse Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Nelson Educaton Ltd. CatchOn NetLearning Holdings, Inc. Cengage Learning Northwest Evaluaton Associaton Cito Open Assessment Technologies S.A. Clever Oracle Corporaton Collectve Shif/LRNG Otus Concentric Sky Panopto Cornelsen Verlag GmbH Parchment Credly Pearson Educaton D2L Corporaton Portolium, Inc. Data Recogniton Corporaton PowerSchool Digital Knowledge EdTech Lab Inc. Public Consultng Group Digitalme Questar Assessment, Inc. Drieam Renaissance Learning Ecree SAFARI Montage Edmentum Inc. Sakai/Tsugi Educatonal Testng Service Santllana Global EDUCAUSE Schoology Ellucian Smart Sparrow Elsevier Inc. Trifork Learning Solutons B.V. eLumen Trinity Educaton Group eSync Training TurnItIn Explorance Uchida Yoko Co., Ltd., Uchidayoko Insttute for Educaton Research Follet Corporaton Unicon, Inc. GG4L - Global Grid For Learning Unizin Ltd. Google LLC VitalSource / Ingram Harvard Business Publishing for Educators Wiley Houghton Mifin Harcourt Willo Labs IBM Workday Infnite Campus, Inc. World-Class Instructonal Design and Assessment WIDA Instructure Zia Learning i-Scream Edu Italian Quality Company IQC Srl itslearning K12 Kaltura Inc. Kimono Knovaton, Inc. Learning Experiences Learning Logistcs View the complete list of all Learning Machine IMS Global members at: imsglobal.org/members

4 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 2017 2017 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 4 2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 6 Growing to over 490 MEMBERS — suppliers, higher educaton insttutons, K-12 school districts, states, and government organizatons — who are the world leaders in educatonal technology

IMS Around the Globe IMS Japan Society provides leadership in the IMS Europe created the IMS Europe Board to ensure e-learning, publishing, and educaton sectors to the needs and interests of European members are met further the development and adopton of use of IMS in IMS standards. The IMS Europe Board also works OneRoster for a natonal K-12 technology initatve, to increase awareness and adopton of IMS standards representng a signifcant leap forward to align IMS in Europe and hosts an annual IMS Europe Summit. standards with priorites in the region. In August 2018, In November 2018, over 100 IT and academic IMS Japan Society held generaton digital learning leaders and practtoners atended the Summit held in environments and OneRoster, and the Japan Learning Utrecht, Netherlands, with support from Blackboard, Impact Awards competton. The Japan Society 2019 Electric Paper Evaluaton Systems GmbH, Explorance, meetngs will take place 24-25 September in Tokyo Instructure, Itslearning, Proctorio, SURF, and and 26 September in Osaka, Japan. VitalSource. IMS Korea under the leadership of KERIS (Koriea IMS Europe Summit 2019 Educaton and Research Informaton Service) provides (imsglobal.org/event/europe2019) will take place 10- regional guidance for the development and adopton 11 October in Barcelona, Spain. of IMS standards and is the formal liaison with the IMS Global community. IMS Korea is actvely involved In 2018, IMS began holding regular virtual meetng in many IMS technical areas including AccessForAll, for IMS Members based in Asia and the Pacifc Rim to Caliper Analytcs, Common Cartridge, EPUB for provide tmely updates on IMS working groups and Educaton, LTI, and QTI technical actvites. These briefngs contnue in 2019 with new sessions added for IMS Europe members.

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 7 COLLABORATION 7,738 registered users of imsglobal.org

Members in 26 diferent countries

166 HED & K-12 insttutons

21 government/state educaton agencies

305 edtech suppliers

“We believe that open technologies, embedded in an open ecosystem, lead to beter outcomes for teachers and learners. Without open standards to enable the educatonal ecosystem we could not meet the needs of our users. IMS Global Learning Consortum fosters these open standards and empowers educatonal innovaton, and we are incredibly proud of our ongoing work and collaboraton with other members.” —Melissa Loble | Senior Vice President | Customer Success and Partnerships, Instructure and Member | IMS Board of Directors

6 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 2017 2018 IMS2017 GLOBAL IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL ANNUAL REPORT REPORT 8 6 ADVANCING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION in fve key areas

INTEGRATED ADAPTIVE DIGITAL DIGITAL DIGITAL CURRICULUM CREDENTIALS ASSESSMENT

Packaging learning content Digital credentals are reshaping High-quality, innovatve digital from diferent sources and the way we think about assessment that is accessible, streamlining the management educaton and professional adaptve, and safeguarded for development by enabling lifelong integrity, complements the of digital resources saves learner-control of their evidence- teaching and learning process, valuable instructon tme and based skills and achievements enabling efectve interventons provides greater choice and and supportng the transiton and contnuous improvement. fexibility that leads to beter to standards-based and learning experiences. competency-based learning.

AccessForAll® Badge Connect API Accessible Portable Item ® ® Common Cartridge® and CASE Network Protocol (APIP ) Thin Common Cartridge Profle Competencies and Academic Computer Adaptve Testng ® ® EPUB for Educaton Standards Exchange (CASE ) Queston and Test ® ® OpenVideo Comprehensive Learner Record Interoperability (QTI ) Open Badges Proctoring Services

LEARNING DATA LEARNING & ANALYTICS PLATFORMS, APPS & TOOLS Clickstream learning data from Scalable, seamless, and all digital resources—available secure integraton of all digital in real-tme and viewable using content, learning tools, and any dashboard—can help inform assessment products into an student success strategies, insttuton’s digital learning insttutonal academic decisions, environment is the most instructonal design, and efectve way to support provides a common data next-generaton teaching and format for research on student learning. learning. Caliper Analytcs® App Vetng & Privacy Edu-API Learning Tools Learning Informaton Services Interoperability® (LTI®) LTI Insights LTI Advantage OneRoster® LTI Resource Search

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 9 ADAPTIVE DIGITAL CURRICULUM

Digital Curriculum Spotlight Broward County Public Schools is “pushing A new THIN COMMON the envelope” to increase instructonal impact using IMS standards and their Canvas LMS to CARTRIDGE K-12 PROFILE is automatcally create and roster courses and pre-populate rigorous content for educators a priority for insttutons and to use. Broward’s Innovatve Learning team districts partners with other departments in the Ofce of Academics to work with vendor partners to ask for content that is delivered in modules so that the district can create its own scope and sequence. The district prefers to spend less tme visitng and training staf on other platorms and wants all instructonal resources ingested into the LMS via the LTI, Common Cartridge, and Common Cartridge Thin Common Cartridge standards. product certfcatons INCREASED 44% IN ONE YEAR

“Baltmore County Public Schools (BCPS) has implemented a digital ecosystem called BCPS One—available anytme, anywhere—for all 20,000 staf, including 10,000 plus educators, and 114,000 students. Using IMS Global Learning Consortum standards such as Learning Tools Interoperability IMS members are leading (LTI), Thin Common Cartridge, and Queston and Test the way in research and Interoperability (QTI), BCPS brings together separate sofware systems into one seamless environment for development for ease of access and use.” ADAPTIVE & PERSONALIZED —Jeanne K. Imbriale | Director | Ofce of Enterprise Applicatons, Department of Informaton Technology | SOLUTIONS Baltmore County Public Schools

DIGITAL CURRICULUM PRODUCT STEERING COMMITTEE Provides leadership in advancing the adopton of fully integrated digital content using IMS standards. Accelerate Learning ACT D2L Houghton Mifin Harcourt Instructure itslearning PCG Pearson SAFARI Montage Schoology 2018 IMS 2017 GLOBAL IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL ANNUAL REPORT REPORT 10 8 DIGITAL CREDENTIALS

Digital Credentals Spotlight The Georgia Department of Educaton is the frst state to publish its learning standards in the IMS Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) format. Traditonally, states and other educaton agencies publish 17 digital badge platorms their academic standards and competency frameworks and tools are as human-readable documents that must be manipulated to be used by learning technology tools, which makes OBv2 CERTIFIED it error-prone and challenging to track modifcatons. By providing all of the Georgia Standards of Excellence in CASE format, open-educatonal resources are more easily aligned to the standards and thus discoverable The BADGE CONNECT when searched by teachers and students. Districts and individual educators can build crosswalks to their API in development will allow local learning targets, organize assessment results, and badge earners to securely and discover content through these crosswalks. easily move their badges from one OBv2 product to another DIGITAL CREDENTIALS EXECUTIVE BOARD Works collaboratvely to understand the latest trends in digital credentals and to set priorites for evolving The emerging IMS Global’s CBE-aware ecosystem, including the COMPREHENSIVE Comprehensive Learner Record and Open Badges standards. AEFIS Learning Machine LEARNER RECORD standard Brandman University Mozilla Foundaton Brigham Young University Natonal Student Clearinghouse is a secure, learner-centered Capella University Open University digital record that will capture Cengage Parchment Collectve Shif/LRNG Portolium ALL ACHIEVEMENTS Concentric SkyKaltura Purdue University Credly University of Michigan D2L University of Wisconsin Madison Digitalme University of Wisconsin System IBM Administraton Indiana University Wichita State University

“Our vision for the next big thing in digital credentals are Open Pathways that enable educators to take a framework for competencies or learning standards—for example the IMS CASE standard—and turn that framework into a pathway (or set of pathways) that a learner can navigate while earning badges associated with each competency. Learner progress through an Open Pathway can be output as Comprehensive Learner Record that details the learner’s journey through the competency framework.”

—Wayne Skipper | Founder and CEO | Concentric Sky

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 11 INTEGRATED & ACTIONABLE DIGITAL ASSESSMENT

Assessment Spotlight Since 2013, Pearson has invested heavily in the QTI is the ONLY implementaton of QTI and APIP for the authoring, INTEROPERABILITY delivery, and scoring of online assessments. Using STANDARD for the QTI as the Item interoperability framework enables content providers—both external partners and authoring and delivery of internal Pearson groups—to inject QTI items at online tests large scale into Pearson’s TestNav 8 ecosystem for delivery. To date, over 25 million producton items have been imported into this ecosystem, with new items imported at an average rate of 200 per The latest version of QTI minute. Furthermore, this QTI assessment content enables a 100% online testng is successfully delivered and scored at scale: presentng and scoring an average of 4,000 items environment that is per second during school hours (U.S. Eastern tme ACCESSIBLE TO ALL zone), with 50% higher than average transactons STUDENTS during peak periods.

“Smarter Balanced members seek to make the diversity of Smarter Balanced items available in an IMS members are contnuing item transmission format that is used more widely to ignite digital assessment among service providers so that the high-quality Smarter Balanced content may be made available to transformaton with two new additonal teachers and students more quickly and at a lower cost. We are optmistc that QTI 3.0 is a standards signifcant milestone in that directon.” COMPUTER ADAPTIVE —Tony Alpert | Smarter Balanced Executve Director TESTING and PROCTORING SERVICES

ASSESSMENT PRODUCT STEERING COMMITTEE Provides feedback to the QTI technical workgroups, helps drive assessment enhancements and usability, fosters long-term alignment between accessibility and assessment, and promotes QTI as the de-facto standard for e-assessment interoperability.

ACT Maryland State Department of Educaton BPS Bilidungsportal Sachsen GmbH Minnesota Department of Educaton Cito Northwest Evaluaton Associaton Educatonal Testng Service New Meridian Corporaton (PARCC Consortum) Fayete County Public Schools Kentucky New York City Department of Educaton FLVS - Florida Virtual School Open Assessment Technologies Gwinnet County Public Schools Pearson Houston Independent School District Performance Maters Instructure Questar Assessment, Inc. Measured Progress Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortum, State of Washington McGraw-Hill Educaton World-Class Insutrctonal Design and Assessment WIDA

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 12 REAL-TIME LEARNING DATA & ANALYTICS

Learning Data & Analytcs Spotlight Initatves leveraging CALIPER Caliper Analytcs is being used to collect learning event ANALYTICS across HED are data at scale at the University of Michigan. Daily, 1.5+ enabling insttutons to identfy million Caliper 1.1 LiveEvents from student actvity on the learning management system are produced. In one AT-RISK and IN-NEED year, over 10 million learning events have been produced STUDENTS by LMS-integrated commercial applicatons like the Kaltura video content management system and home- grown applicatons including lecture capture and STEM HED community leaders problem sets. As part of the Unizin Data Platorm efort, launch the EDU-API all of this learning event data is being combined with administratve data to develop feedback systems that INITIATIVE to establish will provide faculty with teaching insights and support a standard interface for student success. STUDENT DATA in the ANALYTICS PRODUCT student informaton system STEERING COMMITTEE Provides leadership to design and implement coordinated actvites to infuse market inputs and feedback into the LTI INSIGHTS uses Caliper growing IMS Global learning analytcs portolio. Analytcs and LTI for secure Blackboard McGraw-Hill Educaton Clever University of California, Berkeley access to REAL-TIME D2L University of California, San Diego Elsevier University of Kentucky tool usage data presented Explorance University of Michigan Instructure Unizin in a USER-FRIENDLY Kaltura VitalSource / Ingram DASHBOARD ONEROSTER PRODUCT STEERING COMMITTEE “At the start of the 2018-2019 school year, Provides leadership to design and implement Grapevine-Colleyville ISD was 95% digital day one, coordinated actvites to infuse market inputs going from 5% to 95% in just one year. We intend and feedback into the growing portolio of for the sofware in our digital learning ecosystem to OneRoster data exchange services. work for our students right away and One Roster gives us this ability. We will get to 100% IMS-certfed Clever McGraw-Hill Educaton OneRoster usage among our edtech vendors.” D2L Microsof Infnite Campus Pearson —Kyle Berger | Chief Technology Ofcer | Instructure Schoology Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District Itslearning Unicon Kimono

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 13 PLUG-AND-PLAY ECOSYSTEM OF LEARNING PLATFORMS, APPS & TOOLS

LTI Advantage Spotlight Leaders and innovators representng the IMS More than 300 IMS MEMBERS higher educaton community endorsed a leter of support for LTI Advantage as the preferred industry partcipated in BOOTCAMPS and standard for learning product integraton. LTI HACKATHONS to upgrade their Advantage provides insttutons with the foundaton tools and platorms to for building a connected digital ecosystem that supports beter teaching and learning experiences LTI ADVANTAGE while protectng sensitve student data passing between applicatons. IMS members also drafed a statement of intent for IT organizatons and procurement ofces to help ensure their suppliers support the features of LTI Advantage now and in the future. All of the leading learning management systems and dozens of edtech tool suppliers have Over 500 products have been commited to LTI Advantage adopton and IMS reviewed and over 300 policies (and certfcaton. countng) have been veted using the IMS APP VETTING program

“Our faculty are very innovatve. They are constantly looking at new tools and new ways to serve our students. But learning tools are changing and the needs of our students are changing. We need to be able to respond quickly and LTI has been the glue that has allowed us to respond much faster than we were able to in the past. Now with LTI Advantage, LTI RESOURCE SEARCH we’ll be able to build much tghter integratons between those tools, which will enable students to have a beter experience enables the seamless search for and make it easier for faculty to teach.” EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES —Michael Berman | Deputy CIO & Chief Innovaton Ofcer | inside the learning platorm by California State University, Ofce of the Chancellor EDUCATORS

LTI PRODUCT STEERING COMMITTEE Provides leadership to design and implement coordinated actvites to infuse market inputs and feedback into the growing portolio of LTI-enabled data exchange services.

Blackboard Cengage D2L Edmentum Google Instructure McGraw-Hill Educaton Schoology Turnitn

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 14 Collaboratve Programs demonstratng INSTITUTIONAL EXCELLENCE & LEADERSHIP in acceleratng the adopton of IMS standards

IMS CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE An IMS Center for Excellence (CoE) is led by an IMS Contributng Member insttuton that has a strategic vision and experience enabling a digital ecosystem using at least one IMS standard to improve teaching and learning experiences. The goal of an IMS CoE is to provide leadership, best practces, and support to accelerate the adopton of IMS standards and to help insttutons of all sizes evolve their digital learning strategy to improve teaching and learning experiences.

University of Central Florida is a Center of Excellence for Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)

Volusia County Schools is an IMS Center of Excellence for OneRoster

INNOVATION LEADERSHIP NETWORKS The HED and K-12 Innovaton Leadership Networks (ILN) are designed to provide a productve networking model for insttutonal and state members to work together in a meaningful way to discuss pressing issues, share ideas, and build successful community-focused solutons. Each group focuses on compelling projects with clear milestones and deliverables to help partcipants and the higher educaton and K-12 communites at large develop solutons, best practces, and strategic resources to enable digital transformaton to support teaching and learning innovaton. The ILNs are also the conduit for insttutonal and state members to provide input into current and future IMS technical projects.

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 15 K-12 DIGITAL LEARNING REVOLUTION PROGRAM

IMS K-12 member insttutons—representng over 11 million students—developed a strategic model for insttutons of all sizes and needs to streamline standards-based technology adopton and integraton and ofer a path for signifcant improvements in teaching and learning. Through the K-12 Digital Learning Revoluton Program (imsglobal.org/k12-revoluton), IMS provides districts, schools, and state agencies:

● A strong and independent non-proft organizaton that brings together the leadership of end users, suppliers, and government organizatons to develop community-owned edtech standards.

● A highly efectve voice for insttutons in infuencing the directon of learning technology in this critcal era of digital transformaton.

● Customized support for individual districts, schools, and government organizatons to ensure that next generaton infrastructure for digital content and learning technology delivers on standards-based interoperability.

The diferent facets of the program provide guidance and recommendatons on IMS standards to adopt when building a connected digital ecosystem. Afer commitng to IMS standards and certfed products, districts and insttutons implement components of the program to meet their unique goals. IMS Global provides support to ensure success with the program

IMS Global Learning Consortum has been a great partner and resource as we engage with providers and innovate in our practce. The K-12 leadership community, RFP templates, IMS certfcaton, and the K-12 Digital Learning Revoluton program have all been extemely helpful. Providing a seamless digital ecosystem for our learners and leaders is challenging but we feel that our partnership with IMS Global will help us to achieve these goals.

- Jim Farmer | Chief Technology Ofcer | Fayete County Schools (GA)

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 16 DIFFERENCE MAKERS in postsecondary and K-12 educaton directng IMS priorites to solve critcal IT, curriculum, assessment, and instructonal technology challenges—now and in the future

Higher Educaton Insttutonal Leadership Board Ryan Anderson | Senior Director of Instructonal Design and Academic Technologies | University of Wisconsin Extension Michael Berman | Deputy CIO & Chief Innovaton Ofcer | California State University | Ofce of the Chancellor Malcolm Brown | Director | EDUCAUSE Learning Initatve (ELI) | EDUCAUSE Thomas Cavanagh, Ph.D. | Vice Provost for Digital Learning | University of Central Florida Paul Czarapata, Ed.D. | Vice President and Chief Informaton Ofcer for the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) Sean DeMonner | Executve Director | ITS Teaching & Learning | University of Michigan Elias Eldayrie | Vice President and Chief Informaton Ofcer | University of Florida Jason Fish | Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies | Purdue University Stephen Gance | Policy Associate - eLearning & Open Educaton | Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges David Goodrum | Ed.D., Director of Academic Technology | Informaton Services | Oregon State University Mathew Gunkel | Director of Teaching and Learning Technology | Indiana University Avi Hyman, Ed.D. | Director of Academic & Collaboratve Technologies | University of Toronto Olya Jerschkowsky | Associate Vice Provost | Strategy & Learner Experience, Academic Afairs | University of Maryland University College Dale Johnson | Adaptve Program Manager | Arizona State University Dave Johnson | Director of Research & Analytcs | Colorado State University Online Lee Johnston | Associate Vice Chancellor of Competency Technology | Brandman University Linda Jorn | Assoc. Vice Provost of Learning Technologies & Division of IT Dir. of Academic Technology | University of Wisconsin Vince Kellen, Ph.D. | Chief Informaton Ofcer | University of California, San Diego Judy Komar | Vice President of Educatonal Technology | Colorado Technical University Mary-Ellen Kreher | Dir., Course Design and Development | Innovatve Learning Technology Initatve | University of California Ofce of the President Patrick Laughran | Associate Vice President for Technology and Chief Informaton Ofcer | Framingham State University Meggan Levit | Assistant Vice Provost and Associate CIO | University of California, Davis Mark McCallister | Director of Academic Technology | University of Florida Kimberly Moore | JD, Director for Workforce, Professional and Community Educaton | Wichita State University Renee Pfeifer-Lucket | Director, Learning Technology Development | University of Wisconsin System Administraton John Rome | Deputy Chief Informaton Ofcer | Arizona State University Marianne Schroeder | Senior Associate Director, Teaching & Learning Technologies | The University of Britsh Columbia Jennifer Sparrow | Senior Director for Teaching and Learning Technology | Penn State University Jenn Stringer | Chief Academic Technology Ofcer & Assistant Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning | UC Berkeley Jack Suess | Chairman of the Board | Vice President of Informaton Technology and CIO | University of Maryland, Baltmore County (UMBC) Nick Thompson | Assistant Director | Common Collaboratve Learning Environment | UCLA Paul Turner | Director of Learning Platorms | University of Notre Dame Nick White | Director of Competency Based Learning Soluton | Capella University Shannon Wilson | Vice President of Academic Technologies | University of Phoenix

K-12 Insttutonal Leadership Board Dwayne Alton | Director of Infrastructure Services | School District of Lee County, Florida Tina Barrios, Ph.D. | Assistant Superintendent of Informaton Systems and Technology | School Board of Polk County, Florida Colet Bartow | Director, Content Standards and Instructon | Montana Ofce of Public Instructon Emily Bell | Director of Enterprise Applicatons | Fulton County Schools, Georgia G. Anthony Benners Ph.D. | Senior Director of Assessment Design and Senior Psychometrician | New York City Department of Educaton Kyle Berger | Chief Technology Ofcer | Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, Texas Brian Bissell | Board Chair | Colorado Virtual Academy Brian Blanton, Ph.D. | Assistant Superintendent for Technology Services | Henry County Schools, Georgia

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 18 2017 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 16 Pioneering leadership in recognizing the IMPACT of technology on improving the access, afordability, and quality of educaton

LEARNING IMPACT PROGRAM The Learning Impact program (imsglobal.org/learningimpact/li.html) identfes and recognizes breakthrough uses of technology in educaton that help guide the work of IMS and set the directon for the broader edtech community to get to the future faster. The program has three annual components—the Learning Impact Awards competton, the Learning Impact Report, and the Learning Impact Leadership Insttute—that together showcase evolving educatonal models and innovatve edtech applicatons that improve impact on personalized learning, insttutonal performance, and the digital learning ecosystem.

LEARNING IMPACT AWARD WINNERS Twenty-six fnalists competed for the 2018 Learning Impact Awards—the only expert judged competton that assesses the use of innovatve edtech in context at insttutons of learning. Eight medals were awarded at the 2018 Learning Impact Leadership Insttute.

Platnum Medals Blackboard Ally — Blackboard Georgia Virtual Total Learning Architecture — PCG Educaton and the Gerogia Department of Educaton

Gold Medals Developing Learners’ Sof Skills with Bongo — Bongo Supportng the Selecton of Quality Digital Resources: HISD App Toolbox — Houston Independent School District Educaton Technology

Silver Medals Maplesof Online Learning Courseware at University of Waterloo — Maplesof and the University of Waterloo TAO Assessment Platorm in New York City DOE — Open Assessment Technologies and New York City DOE

Bronze Medals IM Road Safety Savvy - Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore, Singapore Road Safety Contol, Singapore Police Force and FXMedia Singapore Pte Ltd Using LMS Interoperability to Power and Drive Student-Centered Learning — itslearning and Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township

LEARNING IMPACT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE 591 EdTech Revoluton Leaders The future of edtech starts at the annual Learning Impact Leadership Atendance Up 11% from 2017 Insttute! Close to 600 educaton leaders and technology professionals— with half partcipatng for the frst tme—joined the 2018 event in Baltmore, Maryland. This is the only event that connects K-20 insttutons, government, corporate learning, and supplier organizatons to explore and advance edtech innovaton in support of educatonal improvement. The 2019 Learning Impact Leadership Insttute (imsglobal.org/lili2019) will take place 20-23 May 2019, in San Diego, California

Atendees surveyed: 67% rated their overall experience as very valuable 77% said it was extremely benefcial and worth the expense of atending 93% would recommend this meetng to others

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 19 EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP across insttutonal and supplier interests focused on acceleratng educatonal innovaton charged with repressing all members

IMS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Serves to represent the membership as a whole and its diverse interests

18 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 2017 2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 20 2017 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 18 PROVEN PROCESSES that ensure the widespread adopton of the work of the IMS member community across existng and emerging product categories

IMS Conformance Certfcaton: The Best Way to Implement IMS Standards The IMS Global community established the certfcaton program to deliver on the value propositon of a trusted, plug-and-play edtech ecosystem. IMS provides code libraries, real-life tests, staf support, and other resources to ensure reliable and consistent product integatons—at the lowest possible cost. Visit the IMS Certfed Product Directory—the ofcial catalog of 1691 products with actve IMS certfcatons guaranteed to total individual certfcatons since meet the IMS standards for which they have passed the program began testng—at imscert.org

In 2019, 210 diferent learning platorms, apps, and 38% tools achieved IMS certfcaton for atotal of 523 increase in total number of actve certfcatons across all IMS standards. certfcatons from 2017-2018

Media Partners IMS Global works with educatonal technology research and news organizatons to build awareness for IMS member actvites, resources, and events. Current media partners include the Learning Counsel, EdSurge, and eSchool Media.

IMS Global Learning Consortum Staf Lisa Matson | COO Supports and facilitates member organizatons around Leslie McCaferty | Technical Integraton Specialist the world in the full range of IMS actvites including the Joshua McGhee | Technical Program Manager management of the IMS conformance certfcaton program. Mark McKell | Program Manager Andy Miller | Technical Standards Architect Rob Abel, Ed.D. | CEO Bracken Mosbacker | Technical Standards Architect Cary Brown | Higher Educaton Program Director Phil Nicholls | Sofware Architect Jef Bohrer | Technical Program Manager Mat Pasiewicz | Developer Karen Daughtery | K-12 Insttutonal Program Manager Gentry Riggen | Sofware Engineer Nynke de Boer | IMS Europe Liason James Rissler | Sofware Standards Architect Sandra DeCastro | VP, Community Programs Colin Smythe | Chief Architect Tracey Fandel | Finance & Administraton Manager Bruce Umpstead | Director of State Programs Dereck Haskins | Sr. Sofware Engineer Ian Weddell | Program Manager Jill Hobson | Insttutonal Program Manager Cara Jenkins | Marketng Communicatons Director Mark Leuba | VP, Product Management Kevin Lewis | Project Manager

2018 IMS GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 21 Join the growing IMS member community doing the critcal work to advance plug-and-play, real-tme interoperability across hundreds of innovatve edtech products enabling insttutons to achieve the full benefts of digital transformaton

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