A Lightweight Distributed Implementation of IMS LD on Google's Android Platform

Learning activity based standards like the IMS Learning Design (IMS-LD) have recently emerged. Typical implementations of this standard rely on client-server architectures. This is problematic for resource limited mobile devices that may not have reliable Internet access. This paper presents the design and implementation of a system that takes a sub-set of the IMS LD design specification involving multiple roles and creates native code for mobile devices that collectively run the learning design using SMS messages for synchronization. An implementation targeting the Googlepsilas Android mobile platform is shown.