are education technology interoperability standards creating the future?
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Are Education Technology
Interoperability Standards Creating the
Future?Rob Abel, Ed.D.
IMS Global Learning Consortiumhttp://www.imsglobal.org/
rabel@imsglobal.orgTwitter: #LearningImpact
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1995-6
1999-2000
2005-7
The “Hype” Cycle for Learning
Tech Standards?
?
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Interoperability Standardsare Widely Adopted When:
• Supplier Motivation is High, or• Buyers Care and Their Bargaining
Power is High, or• Both Are True
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Bringing the Horses to Waterin Emerging Markets
Realization ofMarketOpportunityorCost SavingsOpportunity $$$
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There Are Many Challenges• Market opportunity: Generally
more prudent to invest in products than standards
• Cost savings opportunity: You need to invest first before realizing savings
• Entrenched interests in proprietary approaches
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Consortium-Driven Standardsare Successful When
• Suppliers Believe the Market Opportunity is Greater for Them by Cooperating with Others, or
• Buyer Bargaining Power is High and Well-Coordinated, or
• Ideally, Both
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‘Checkmarks’ Are Not Enough
“Vendors know the difference between clients’ asking for standards “compatibility” in order to check off a box on an RFP . . . that is why we
must include true, tested, guaranteed interoperability as a priority in our purchasing
decisions, and why we must pressure our current support vendors to provide it as a
condition of their continuing good business relations with us.”
-- Charles F. Leonhardt, Principal
Technologist, Georgetown University
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Net-NetBuyerawareness& support
Enablingstandard
thatdelivers
Perceivedmarket
opportunity Community commitment
ViableConsortialStandard
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Agenda• Is IMS work innovative?
• The challenge of interoperability standards adoption in the education segments
• What we think we might have learned in the last 6 years
• Where do we go from here?
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Learnings #1• Standards need to be shaped/adjusted
continuously by the practical and entrepreneurial needs of the market
• Prime example:
QTI v1.2 QTI v2 APIP Futurethe inevitability of e-Assessment;
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Learnings #2
• Suppliers must have a motivation to adopt; the motivation is always economic; voluntary adoption is the best test
• Prime example:
LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability)becoming the best way to integrate
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Learnings #3
• Mainstream end-users have the most to say about what is innovative in the end, but they are difficult to engage in the beginning; ease of use is most important factor
• Prime example:
Common Cartridgenational standards, OER, e-textbook
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Learnings #4
• Education segment standards consortia can succeed but they must be able to gather the resources to catalyze all of the above and most importantly deliver on interoperability
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Net-NetBuyerawareness& support
Enablingstandard
thatdelivers
Perceivedmarket
opportunity Community commitment
ViableConsortialStandard
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How Do WeDo It?
Ed TechInteroperability
Standards
Large-Scale AdoptionProjects
Annual Learning Impact
Conference & LIA Awards
Purposeful Technology Innovation Applied to Improve Education
TechnicalFoundation for
Distributed Innovation
Adoption of Innovation at Scale Toward
Strategic Goals
Recognizing Impact on Access,
Affordability, Quality of Education
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Learnings• Standards need to be shaped continuously
by the practical and entrepreneurial needs of the market
• Suppliers must have a motivation to adopt; the motivation is always economic; voluntary adoption is the best test
• Mainstream end-users have the most to say about what is innovative in the end, but they are difficult to engage in the beginning; ease of use is most important factor
• Education segment standards consortia can succeed but they must be able to gather the resources to catalyze all of the above and most importantly deliver on interoperability
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Agenda• Is IMS work innovative?
• The challenge of interoperability standards adoption in the education segments
• What we think we might have learned in the last 6 years
• Where do we go from here?
The Challenge & Opportunity:
Instructional Improvement
needs to be implementedThis across all
of this
While Doing More with Less . . .
The Sea Change:
Interoperability at the Core of the Academic Enterprise to Enable Efficiency, Flexibility, Innovation, a Better User Experience and
Actionable Data
FromMany,One
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Summary• While there is still quite a lot of work
to do . . .
• Education technology standards seem to have a role in creating the future . . .
• But to have a higher impact on innovation going forward we will need (1) standards at the core and (2) continued/more activism in various communities around the world . . .
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Thank You!
rabel@imsglobal.orghttp://www.imsglobal.org/
@LearningImpact
#imsglobal
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