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The "Challenges in Educational Publishing" Series

Feb 05, 2025


The Interoperability Challenge

How do you connect disparate platforms & products without fragmenting the learning experience?


This is the second blog in a ​series that addresses key challenges reported by educational publishers and edtech providers. You can read our first post in the series, “The Product Extension Challenge”, here. 


Today’s topic: Educational publishers have multiple existing platforms that deliver digital content across various markets or disciplines. How do you connect all these platforms and products without disrupting the user experience?


THE CHALLENGE

Education publishers have multiple existing platforms that deliver digital content across various markets or disciplines. Increasingly, institutions require this content to be delivered directly into their institution’s LMS such as Canvas, Blackboard or platforms like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. Moreover, the expectation is for seamless integrations—covering single sign-on (SSO), rostering, grade synchronization, and course setup—so that learners and teachers experience a unified and integrated digital journey.


This scenario is further complicated by the diverse ecosystem of LMS vendors. While there are standards to guide interoperability (LTI, xAPI, etc.), they do not fully solve the challenges around grade synchronization, alignment with educational standards, and handling the distributed nature of data flow between customer LMSs and publisher platforms. 


This often results in fragmented learning experiences, requiring manual intervention to address gaps in data synchronization and user experience continuity.


THE SOLUTION

At Compro Technologies, we resolve these challenges by implementing an interoperability gateway for publishers, particularly when managing multiple internal platforms. This enables the learning platform to focus on its core strengths—content discovery and delivery. 


By leveraging a standards-based approach, the interoperability gateway ensures that you are able to manage integrations at scale. It provides a consistent integration interface across different LMSs, reducing variability and manual effort across institutions. This addresses the common challenges around security, LTI standards, grade synchronization, and more. 


Additionally, we leverage apps - that we call Experience Apps - that specialize in creating the user experience and provide the framework for rapid implementation of necessary user journeys, including onboarding, navigation, and deep linking from third-party platforms. 


This ensures that users can effortlessly transition between systems while accessing content.


Combining all these capabilities in a single digital engine - which leverages the comproDLS™ ecosystem - enables content providers to integrate multiple platforms and products while minimizing any fragmentation of the learning experience.


If you are facing an interoperability challenge, let’s talk. Meanwhile, be sure to follow our blog for more challenges that we encounter in educational publishing and how they can be resolved.

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