The online educational landscape continues to yield significant growth in online digital curriculum development, delivery and enrollment. There is also a continued heightened interest in, and now demand for, accountability regarding the ability to measure and analyze this enriched online learning activity. This interest, coupled with the more recent surge of the MOOCs and other online-only program offerings driving highly scaled online curriculum delivery, has caused the edtech ecosystem to explore and motivate a call to action to apply “Big Data” Analytics to education to drive a more efficient and informed online learning environment. All of this attention on,and demand for,accountability backed by measurability, presents a very timely opportunity for IMS and standards to take a leadership position in defining a common foundation to enable the measurement of learning activity and its performance at a very granular level.
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