About IMS

IMS Global has proven that leading educational institutions and edtech suppliers can work together to move the education sector forward.

IMS Initiatives

IMS focuses on a complete set of foundational initiatives that enable educational institutions to leverage the benefits of technology.

IMS Certifications

IMS standards certification pushes the ed-tech ecosystem towards seamless interoperability, lower TCO and greater choice

IMS Standards

IMS standards support seamless interoperability, lower TCO and greater choice.

IMS Playbooks

IMS playbooks guide you through a standards driven, open edtech ecosystem.

Innovation Leadership Networks (ILN)

Joint HED/K-12 Innovation Leadership Networks (ILN)

The Joint HED/K-12 Innovation Leadership Networks (ILN) are designed to provide a productive networking model for both HED and K-12 members to work together in a meaningful way to discuss pressing issues, share ideas, and build successful community-focused solutions. Each group focuses on compelling projects with clear milestones and deliverables to help participants develop solutions, best practices, and strategic resources to enable digital transformation to support teaching and learning innovation. 

Contact IMS for more information or if you are interested in participating in an Innovation Leadership Network.

Accessibility ILN

This leadership network is focused on accelerating adoption of an interoperable, accessible open ecosystem by articulating a clear alignment between accessibility requirements and IMS Global interoperability standards. *This is a joint K-12 and HED Innovation Leadership Network.

Data Governance and TrustEd Apps ILN

In this ILN, institutional leaders will discuss how comprehensive reviews of student privacy, data security, and other safety issues of applications. Institutions will be given the tools necessary to ensure the appropriate safeguards of student data are in place. The TrustEd Apps program is the process that IMS has developed to vet applications and certify them for data privacy.

K-12 Innovation Leadership Networks (ILN)

The K-12 Innovation Leadership Networks (ILN) are designed to provide a productive networking model for district and state members to work together in a meaningful way to discuss pressing issues, share ideas, and build successful community-focused solutions. Each group focuses on compelling projects with clear milestones and deliverables to help participants and the K-12 community at large develop solutions, best practices, and strategic resources to enable digital transformation to support teaching and learning innovation. The ILNs are also the conduit for K-12 institutional and state members to provide input into current and future IMS technical projects. Participation in the K-12 ILNs is limited to current IMS institutional members.

Contact IMS for more information or if you are interested in participating in a K-12 Innovation Leadership Network.

K-12 Data and Assessment ILN

In this leadership network, members will focus on the meaningful use of education data and assessment, including summative, benchmark, formative and diagnostic assessments and the resulting data. This ILN is a conduit for K-12 institutional and state members to provide input into current and future IMS assessment work.

K-12 Digital Credentials ILN

In this ILN, K-12 institutional members are focused on developing strategies for the effective use of digital credentials, collaborating to advance the digital credentials ecosystem, and furthering the adoption of innovative solutions that support competency-based education.

K-12 Procurement Strategies and Solutions ILN

In this ILN, K-12 institutional leaders will network in meaningful ways to discuss pressing issues, share ideas, and build successful community-focused solutions. The group will focus on relevant use cases with clear milestones and deliverables to develop solutions, best practices, and strategic resources that enable digital transformation to support teaching and learning innovation. The ILNs will be the conduit for K-12 institutions to provide input into current and future IMS technical projects.

K-12 Virtual Schools ILN

K-12 institutional members will discuss how IMS Global can help meet the unique needs of virtual and online schools, and K-12 districts that operate an online school.

RESA Interoperability ILN

This new Innovation Leadership Network brings together our regional organizations to discuss how to better provide IT services to supported districts.

Higher Education Innovation Leadership Networks (ILN)

The HED Innovation Leadership Networks (ILN) are designed to provide a productive networking model for college and university members to work together in a meaningful way to discuss pressing issues, share ideas, and build successful community-focused solutions. Each group focuses on compelling projects with clear milestones and deliverables to help participants and the HED community at large develop solutions, best practices, and strategic resources to enable digital transformation to support teaching and learning innovation. The ILNs are also the conduit for HED institutional members to provide input into current and future IMS technical projects. Participation in the HED ILNs is limited to current IMS institutional members.

Contact IMS for more information or complete this interest form to sign up to participate in a HED Innovation Leadership Network.

Academic and Technology Officers

This leadership network is focused on the sharing of strategies and success aimed at addressing the most pressing issues of the relationship between CAO/CIOs (and their offices) as they scale their digital ecosystems to support student success.

Digital Credentials

This network is focused on advancing the interoperability standards needed to support lifelong learning utilizing micro-credentials and open badges to verify skills and competencies. It also is concerned with providing implementation best practices and support needed for extending the traditional transcript to digitally reflect a comprehensive record of achievement, and enabling the integration and transferability of high-value digital credentials.

Digital Teaching Strategies and Innovative Curriculum

Institutional leaders share ideas and build successful community-focused solutions for digital teaching strategies in higher education. This group focuses on relevant use cases with clear milestones and deliverables to develop solutions, best practices, and strategic resources that enable digital transformation to support teaching and learning curriculum innovation.

Learning Data & Analytics

The focus of this institutional network is on accelerating the adoption and the use of data analytics from any educational application or platform in support of student success. The participating institutional members are helping to further the adoption of Caliper Analytics®.

LTI Advantage and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)

This very active group is laser-focused on achieving a plug-and-play ecosystem of learning platforms, apps, and tools to enable teaching and learning innovation. This group is collaborating on developing best practices, use cases, and other resources needed to help to make it easier for all IT, faculty, and students to utilize the content and technology they want.