Post on 12-Jul-2015
Steve MidgleyDeputy DirectorOffice of Education TechnologyUS Department of Education
ContextProcessContent
Context
“By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.”
President Obama
Process
“I can't create my future with the tools from your past.”
Middle school studentSecond Life Session
National Education Technology Plan• Learning• Teaching • Assessment• Infrastructure• Productivity
National Broadband Plan
• Digital Learning and Content
• Better Data• Improved
Infrastructure
Challenges
ducational technology market suffers from “a classic market failure . . . that discourages private industry from heavily investing in basic research to exploit emerging information technologies for learning”
-- Federation of American Scientists
ducation markets are “notoriously difficult to enter [because] they are highly fragmented and often highly political.”
-- Henry Kelly
Opportunities
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illions of dollars spent on educational materials, technology and assessments each year.
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illions of learning objects, primary source materials and other resources housed in Federal repositories today.
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housands of educational Communities of Practice operating online around the world.
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undreds of commercial and non-profit organizations working with digital resources and online learning today.
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The Answer” doesn’t exist•
olutions will be assembled from everywhere• Federal initiatives• Industry innovation• State and local policy and practice• Non-profits and reform support organizations
Learning Registry
Hi, That’s
Us!
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veryone should be able to find “our stuff”•
ther people should be able to comment on our stuff•
e shouldn’t intermediate communication or use: “No gatekeepers”
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e should encourage others settle on a solution•
e shouldn’t be the only node on the network•
e shouldn’t reinvent the wheel•
ur stuff is free, but we should make room for-sale
Federal Needs
Accelerating Change
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: What accelerates and strengthens growth of a network?
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: Value•
: Where does value come from?•
: Functionality and Participation•
: Can you build participation without functionality?•
: ?
uggested reading: Benkler, Wealth of Networks & Christenson, Disrupting Class
Content
: NetworkFunctionality keep it simple
hat should a content network do?•
Help me find stuff”•
Let me share stuff”•
Allow me to participate”
: NetworkFunctionality objectives
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rovide services: permit innovation•
et everyone participate•
o default “winners”•
veryone can provide info on anything•
dentity exists•
e-aggregation is natural•
sage/utility is shared
Network
Brawn
Brain
NetworkStack
Content Sources
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, , ept of Energy Treasury National Science, , , , Foundation NASA NOAA Smithsonian
, , National Archives Library of Congress, Education and more
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, , , ublishers School Districts States , Corporation forPublic Broadcasting Public , , Broadcasting System Entrepreneurs, ’ , Broadcasters NGOs Teachers
’ - , Don t re invent the wheel but axle grease welcome
nternational and NGO•
U: Globe, European SchoolNet, Ariadne•
ustralia•
ERCommons, NYLearns, many others
rivate Sector•
MS/Jess & co, Academic Benchmarks, many others
tates / Local•
alifornia, Indiana, many others
: Advanced Learning Systems Capabilities
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ingle sign on &identity management•
urchasing and license acquisition is easy•
- , - , - ( )e using re mixing re purposing is easy or even possible•
ommunities can exist and find each other•
( )sers control theirdata and privacy no more stovepipes•
: ’ nstrumentation it s possible to see the biggerpicture•
( - )ultiple voices aka meta data•
iverse relevance and recommendation sources•
alue is intensified by diverse parties
Interoperability Needs•
ightweight•
pen access and derivation•
ransparent community•
- -pt in &self assembling•
-asy “on ramp”•
- imple use cases have simple implementations•
orkflow is handled but not required•
- e coupled transport•
pen reference implementations &testing harnesses•
ses existing standards•
( !)ederated identity of resources plus ancestry•
( )ederated discovery and therefore relevancy is too•
? ?emantic tuples Something else
Open Government
( ’ )that s you
ParticipationWelcome( )and needed
. . /www ed gov technology
. .steve midgley@ed gov