Illinois Shared Learning Environment

Illinois Pathways Initiative – Lead Entity DiscussionOctober 11, 2012

Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic OpportunityIllinois State Board of Education

Agenda

Introduction ISLE Overview

Shared Learning Collab.

Instructional Impact

Design Phase Focus

ISLE vision for STEM and

Career Development

Feedback/

Focus Groups

Use Cases & Apps

Need Prioritization

Wrap Up & Next Steps

Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE)

The State of Illinois is developing a statewide technology infrastructure known as the Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE). It will advance the personalization of learning and empower K-12, P-20, and workforce users to manage their academic and career pathways.

Currently, the ISLE team is working on the design phase.

ISLE Overview• Statewide initiative to create an

open source infrastructure• Collaboration with national

initiatives including: • Share Learning Collaborative

(SLC)• Learning Registry

• Illinois is 1 of 5 states participating with Phase I implementation of the Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC)

Illinois Shared Learning Environment

K12 (SLC

Technology)

• Learning Maps

• Dashboards• Portal• Curricular Support

Other K12

Early Learning

Post Secondary

Work Force

P-20 Alignment Using Longitudinal Data

STEM ApplicationsProgram of Study Learning Maps

Vendor and Open Source AppsState Developed Apps

To be further explore

d in RTT-ELC

Who is ISLE?

Illinois State Board of EducationIllinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity

Center for Workforce Development

Project Sponsors

Project Implementation Partners

Advisory Committee (Proposed)

ISBEDCEOIlliniCloudIIRC

CPSBensenville SD 2Urbana SD 116Sandoval SD 501

SIU/CWDUIUC/NCSACommunity CollegeUniversity

P-20 CouncilGovernor’s OfficeEarly Learning CouncilWorkforce

Civic Consulting Alliance: Overall Project Management

Illinois Shared Learning Environment

The first wide-scale, coordinated effort to make technology the disruptive, revolutionary force in education it has been in almost all other industries.

Consortium of Nine States Organized by CCSSO

Funded by the Gates Foundation and Carnegie Corporation

SLC is working to make personalized learning a reality for every U.S. student by improving the usefulness, variety, and affordability of education technology.

What is the Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC)?

Illinois Shared Learning Environment

A set of technology services that will allow districts and other users to safely and securely provide educators with the instructional data and tools they need to help make personalized learning a reality for all students.

The SLC is the foundation for the Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE): “ISLE – Powered by SLC Technology”

What will SLC offer Illinois?

“What’s broken? The idea that ‘one size fits all.’ We aren’t meeting the learning needs of each student.”

Key Challenges Facing EducatorsWith increasing external pressures and declining resources available, educators find themselves facing a number of challenges in the workplace

Lack of Time“Just give us time to do some of the things we don’t have time to do”

Limited Opportunity for Collaboration

“Any time we want to collaborate it’s after school on our own time.”

Changing Expectations

“For new initiatives, you need to get teacher buy-in and involve them in the front line.”

Decreasing Resources

“$80 measly bucks for me to meet with other professionals and they won’t cover it?”

Increasing Data Demands

“It’s frustrating trying to figure out how to take data and do something with it to help students advance.”

Limited capacity for personalized

learning

So what does this mean for teachers?

The Next Level

State or Local Teacher Portal/Dashboard/Learning Builder

Student Data

Learning Maps

Professional Development

Lesson Plans

(Common Core)

Student Resources & Assessment

Tools(Common

Core)

State or Local Teacher Portal/Dashboard / Learning Builder

Student Data

Learning Maps(Technical and Employability)

Professional Development

(Technical and Employability)

Lesson Plans (Technical and Employability)

Student Resources & Assessment

Tools(Technical and Employability)

Take it to the next level by incorporating the technical and employability component.

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What the ISLE technology will enable

SLC Application Programming Interface (API)

SLC Secure multi-tenantdata store

LRMI metadata schema

Source systems data

(classroom, schools, districts, state)

Vendor Data

3rd Party Grading App

What the ISLE technology will include Learning Map

IL Sponsored Apps

Dashboard

3rd Party Data Management

App3rd Party STEM

App

SLC Sponsored Apps

3rd Party Curriculum

App

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Design Phase Focus• Application Layer:

▫ Leveraging SLC analysis of application scenarios▫ Defining scope of applications for investigation and

responsibility between NIU-IIRC and SIU-CWD▫ RFI for input from vendor community▫ Online surveys and focus groups for input from IL educators

and STEM/workforce development interests

• Cloud Infrastructure & Enterprise Software:▫ Designing application development and production

environment▫ Statewide identity integration/authorization system▫ Data model for all P-20 users▫ Long-term data transfer solution(s) for all P-20 users

•Pilot in Bloomington (D87) and McLean County (U5) of basic SLC functionality▫SLC Technology Alpha Release – Now▫SLC Technology Version 1 Release – Dec 2012

• ISLE Focus Groups and Requirements Development – Fall 2012

•Expansion to RttT Districts – Starting in 2013•Build ISLE P20 Components – Starting in 2013•Statewide Implementation – 2014-15 and

beyond

Illinois Shared Learning EnvironmentWhat comes next?