Are Education Technology
Interoperability Standards Creating the
Future?Rob Abel, Ed.D.
IMS Global Learning Consortiumhttp://www.imsglobal.org/
[email protected]: #LearningImpact
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Latest IMS Initiative:
Open Educational Resources in the Cloud via Wave
OER-Cloud-Wave
also known as:
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News Alert: 2006!
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Standards consortia like IMS with a
membership model are a thing of the
past!
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If it wasn’t for SCORM, there would be no need
for IMS!
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Well, whatever you do you better call it
SCORM if you want people to like it!
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Yeah, I’ve been involved in IMS and helped develop
specification xxx, that stuff will never work!
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You will never be able to get dominant
suppliers to implement open
standards!
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Ed Walker is the same age as you Rob, all that grey
hair is just a result of all the stress of
IMS!
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1995-6
1999-2000
2005-7
The “Hype” Cycle for Learning
Tech Standards?
?
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Are Education Technology
Interoperability Standards
Creating the Future?
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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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Definition of Innovation
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IMS Mission Statement
The mission of the IMS Global Learning Consortium is to advance technology that can affordably scale and
improve educational participation and attainment
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IMS GLC Mirrors The
MarketEcosystem
Education Institutions,
Districts, Systems
Suppliers
GovernmentOrganization
sSet standards
to ensure progress
Create and/or adhere to
standards to enable market efficiency and opportunity
Acquire products adhering to standards to achieve strategic
goals
R&D EducationInstitutions
Research & development on
standards &interoperability
Collaboration Across Stakeholders
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Are Education Technology
Interoperability Standards
Creating the Future?
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Are Education Technology
Interoperability Standards Enabling
Innovation andBeing Widely
Adopted?
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Innovation Scale?
A. Widely accepted, substantial improvement
B. Widely accepted, minor improvementC. Somewhat accepted, substantial
improvementD. Somewhat accepted, minor
improvementE. Not yet accepted, substantial
improvementF. Not yet accepted, minor improvement
3 roads15 years
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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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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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Attractive Industry-drivenAlternatives
• Google• Apple• Adobe• Microsoft• Amazon• Other large suppliers
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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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Buyer Bargaining Power isHigh When Dispersion is
Reduced
vs. vs.
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This . . . .
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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!
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