Join the Learning Information Services Alliance
IMS Alliances are for the purpose of ensuring interoperability in practice and keeping implementing organizations current on the evolution of a specific set of IMS standards. Alliances were established at the request of the IMS members. The IMS members wanted support to make reliable interoperability a reality and wanted to avoid the need for every implementing organization to reinvest in the tools, processes, and interactions to integrate with every platform. In the Alliance IMS provides this support at a fraction of the cost and, most importantly, steps in on an ongoing basis to resolve issues that arise.
Under the Alliances, IMS provides extensive support to implement conformant products. When testing is completed, IMS issues a conformance mark that IMS stands behind. What this means is that IMS will get involved directly in any issues that arise and work across organizations to resolve.
Joining in the Alliance and working through the process in the only way to achieve official IMS conformance. Conformance seals are only issued to and maintained with current IMS Alliance, Affiliate and Contributing Members. IMS does this in order to deliver on interoperability in practice on an ongoing basis. This benefits large and small organizations alike in creating and maintaining a vital, innovative, and open marketplace for educational technology products!
Institutions, companies and organizations
Participation in the LIS Alliance is open to educational institutions, not-for-profit and for-profit organizations. This entitles you to:
- Use any of the resources made available from the Alliance website.
- Attend Testfests and other occasional meetings.
- Participate in the Learning Information Services Accredited Profile Management Group. (Note: voting in the APMG is restricted to IMS Contributing Members).
- Display the LIS Alliance logo on your website and other documentation. (Note: use of the IMS logo is restricted to IMS Contributing Members).
- Apply appropriate conformance logos to products you offer which have successfully passed the corresponding conformance test.
- Participate in projects and other activities set up by the Alliance.
- Discounted registration fees for Learning Impact Conference.
You may pay online with a credit card, or request an invoice be emailed to you below.