are education technology interoperability standards creating the future?

Are Education Technology

Interoperability Standards Creating the

Future?Rob Abel, Ed.D.

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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


Bringing the Horses to Waterin Emerging Markets

Realization ofMarketOpportunityorCost SavingsOpportunity $$$


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


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


‘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


Net-NetBuyerawareness& support

Enablingstandard

thatdelivers

Perceivedmarket

opportunity Community commitment

ViableConsortialStandard


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?


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;


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


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


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


Net-NetBuyerawareness& support

Enablingstandard

thatdelivers

Perceivedmarket

opportunity Community commitment

ViableConsortialStandard


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


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


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


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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