Speaker: Andrew Millington

Adopting new learning tools in any institution is a difficult task. Staff and students can be resistant to change and be hesitant to adopt new, unfamiliar workflows. As developers, it is our responsibility to make the adoption of new learning tools as easy as possible, so that the benefits of new systems are immediately apparent, and the barriers to entry are hardly noticed.

At the University of Edinburgh, we are using the Learning Tools Interoperability standard to ease the adoption of new, external learning tools that help enhance our Learning Management Systems (LMS). LTI allows us to easily pass user information between the LMS and an external tool, reducing the barriers that can often hinder the adoption of new learning tools.

In this presentation, we will examine why we have adopted the LTI standard and discuss how we have used it in our new WordPress based academic blogging service and computational notebooks service, Noteable.