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Title Slide
Interoperability – an Overview of the
Landscape
November 17, 2009
Today’s Overview
What is SIF?
Teaching and Learning Framework
Content Catalog
Pilots
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What is SIF?
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Not a product, but a technical blueprint for pK-12 software that will enable diverse applications to interact and share data and information seamlessly
Designed for pK-12 technology providers and educators in an open, platform independent neutral standard way
Manages data and information within the pK-12 environment
Enables diverse applications to interact/share data – allowing best-of-breed
Works cross-platform, over a Web-based interface – vendor neutral
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What is SIF?
Publish and Subscribe
Request and Reply
Message Channel Message Bus
Guaranteed Delivery
Message
Application A
Application B
Message Endpoint
Message Endpoint
SIF Agent
SIF Agent
SIF Zone
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SIF Enterprise Integration (Conceptual)
Network Account
H.R. &Finance
Data Analysis
& Reporting Instructional
Services
Library Automation
Student Information
Services
GradeBook
FoodServices
– Zone Integration Server (ZIS)
– SIF Agents
– Applications
– SIF Data Objects
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Components Working TogetherHorizontal Interoperability
• 2 identified implementation concepts
• Horizontal Implementations
• Vertical Implementations
Library Automation
FoodService
s
Student Information System
District Zone
State Zone
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Meeting Multiple Level Needs…
* Implementation 2.3 – Data Model and Infrastructure
* Web Services 1.0
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SIF Specification
Non-profit for over 12 years developing open interoperability specifications for schools
Over 2,300 members
Specification utilized to serve millions students, teachers and tech coordinators in 50 states and 6 countries
Legislatively mandated in states and internationally
Demanded/suggested by USED, states, schools and international governments in dozens current or planned RFP’s
Lead support agency for US National Data Model Activities
International expansion – SIF Association UK and SIF Association AU
Certification program
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What is the SIF Association’s Current Status?
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Teaching and Learning Framework
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Teaching and Learning Framework
• 10 Objects containing 111 elements• Assessment• AssessmentAdmininstration • AssessmentForm • AssessmentItem• AssessmentPackage • AssessmentRegistration• AssessmentSubtest • ItemCharacteristics • StudentResponseSet • StudentScoreSet
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Assessment
• Allows the opportunity to move student assessment scores to various systems
• Provides item characteristics for assessment items and results enabling data analysis
• Aligns with student learning and performance standards
• Provides opportunity to take assessment, have it scored, results reported and analysis conducted between multiple systems
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So What?
• 10 Objects containing 107 elements• MarkValueInfo • MarkInfo • SectionMarkInfo • StudentSectionMark • GradingCategory • GradingAssignment • GradingAssignmentScore • StudentGradedItem• StudentPeriodAttendance • OfficialStudentPeriodAttendance
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Grade Book
• Tracks official student attendance• Allows grades from multiple systems
to be passed to official grade book• Sends official grades to other
systems
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So What?
• 10 Objects containing 179 elements• Activity• Assignment• Content Catalog (2.4)• Curriculum Structure• LearningResource• LearningResourcePackage• LearningStandardDocument• LearningStandardItem• Lesson • Metadata - EducationFilter
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Instructional Services
• Provides a way to uniquely identify student learning standards
• Defines lesson, activity, assignment and learning resource; enabling interoperability between multiple systems (eg. content management system, learning management system, instructional management system, content repository)
• Allows for content portability and interoperability
• Expands tagging of content for schools specific needs
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So What?
• 7 Objects containing 75 elements• ActivityProvider • ProfessionalDevelopmentActivity• ProfessionalDevelopmentProgram • ProfessionalDevelopmentRegistration • EmployeeCredentials• EmployeeCredit• EmployeeRecertification
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Professional Development
• Enables LEA staff to automatically recertify or re-license with SEA
• Tracks professional development activities for professional development programs
• Tracks budget and stipends for professional development programs and activities
• Aligns professional development with student learning standards
• Follows staff involved in professional development
• Makes possible for staff to compile professional development activities and programs completed
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So What?
• 3 Objects containing 104 elements• StudentParticipation• StudentPlacement• TestAccommodation
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Special Programs
• Enables tracking of student’s eligibility for and participation in special programs and services
• Provides accommodations for assessments
• Describes specific instructional, related or transitional service that has been prescribed or recommended in a student’s IEP
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So What?
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Content Catalog
• Many different applications and presentation layers to get content– Multiple publishers– Content repositories– Different viewing formats
• No easy way to search across heterogeneous sources and media
• Metadata for education- consistent tagging
• Differentiated pedagogy
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Challenge
• Facilitate searching for resources. • Initiated by a requesting application
such as a digital learning environment or learning management system.
• Search response will be served by provider applications such as instructional asset repositories.
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Content Catalog
• Educators and curriculum designers require the ability to communicate their specific instructional asset needs to the providers of repositories of instructional content.
• The language of the request must be concise and applicable across the spectrum of all instructional asset types.
• The scope of the request must be definable in a standard way
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Business Case
Content Catalog
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Pilots
• Student data passed from SIS to LMS• Utilizing SCORM Content• Student works through content• Work scored• Grade passed from LMS to Grade Book• Implementing: Cengage Learning,
Edustructures, eSchool Data, New Century Education
• Participating: ADL, Becta, CDSM, Education.au, Learning Mate, Math Resources, Pearson, SIF Association
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SIF/SCORM Proof of Concept
• Phase III• Use SIF Assessment Objects in
the RTE• Pass RTE data in real time via SIF
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SIF/SCORM Proof of Concept
• The purpose of the SIF Assessment Pilot was to validate the 2.0 assessment objects and thereby establish their viability.
• The StudentResponseSet and StudentScoreSet were transported via the SIF Framework from a testing vendor (Pearson) to another educational entity (VA DOE).
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Assessment Proof of Concept
• Rapid delivery of assessment results• Act quickly on:
– Verified credits– Remediation plans– Summer school
• Monitor security• Future – direct delivery to SIS and
Education Info. Mgmt. System (EIMS)
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VA DOE’s Participation
• Assessment• AssessmentForm• AssessmentSubTest• AssessmentRegistration• AssessmentAdministration• StudentScoreSet• SchoolInfo• LEAInfo• StudentPersonal
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POC Objects
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POC Object Relationships
• POC was a success• Issues were discovered• Encouraged to expand• Mutually beneficial partnerships work• SIF is the segue for moving data
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Lessons Learned
Desire2Learn Overview
We develop and support a learner-centric, enterprise eLearning suite to enrich the teaching and learning experience, and provide a complete suite of professional services to support client success.
Desire2Learn at-a-glance:– Our roots are academic– Fastest growing provider of Enterprise eLearning solutions– Recognized for product leadership, focus on clients and R&D– Over 5 million learners worldwide– 160 employees and growing
Common What?
• IMS standards – Content Packaging– Question/Test Interoperability– Metadata
IMS Common Cartridge
• Standard allows publishers to create packages of resources (content, assessments, question libraries, discussions) using existing IMS and QTI packaging standards
• Publishers can optionally protect the package, requiring users to authenticate with the publisher before importing or accessing protected resources– Designed to provide a standard way to protect content, as
opposed to each publisher or each LMS creating a proprietary method of protection and enforcement
– Desire2Learn has representatives in the IMS Common Cartridge Alliance working groups to help drive the standard
IMS Common Cartridge Support
• Import, usage, and authorization enforcement of IMS Common Cartridge packages– Incorporate resources such as content and quizzes
from publishers packaged according to IMS Common Cartridge specification into Desire2Learn courses
– Enforce any resource protection specified in the cartridge
• Prompt a user for a valid access code• Verify the code electronically with the publisher when a
protected resource is requested
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SIF Association Members at iNACOL
• American Education Corporation
• Blackboard• Discovery Education –
ThinkLink Assessment• K12• Pearson• SAS
Jill Abbott Associate Executive Director/COO
jabbott@sifassociation.org+1 202.491.8214
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