Are Education Technology Interoperability Standards Creating the Future? Rob Abel, Ed.D. IMS Global...

Are Education Technology

Interoperability Standards Creating the

Future?

Rob Abel, Ed.D.IMS Global Learning Consortium

http://www.imsglobal.org/rabel@imsglobal.org

Twitter: #LearningImpact

Latest IMS Initiative:

Open Educational Resources in the Cloud via Wave

OER-Cloud-Wave

also known as:

News Alert: 2006!

Standards consortia like IMS with a

membership model are a thing of the

If it wasn’t for SCORM, there would be no need

for IMS!

Well, whatever you do you better call it

SCORM if you want people to like it!

Yeah, I’ve been involved in IMS and helped develop

specification xxx, that stuff will never work!

You will never be able to get dominant

suppliers to implement open

standards!

Ed Walker is the same age as you Rob, all that grey

hair is just a result of all the stress of

1995-6

1999-2000

2005-7

The “Hype” Cycle for Learning

Tech Standards?

Interoperability Standards

Creating the Future?

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?

Definition of Innovation

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

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

R&D EducationInstitutions

Research & development on

standards &interoperability

Collaboration Across Stakeholders

Interoperability Standards

Creating the Future?

Interoperability Standards Enabling

Innovation andBeing Widely

Adopted?

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

Agenda

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

Attractive Industry-drivenAlternatives

• Google• Apple• Adobe• Microsoft• Amazon• Other large suppliers

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

Buyer Bargaining Power isHigh When Dispersion is

Reduced

vs. vs.

This . . . .

‘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-NetBuyer

awareness& support

Enablingstandard

thatdelivers

Perceivedmarket

opportunity Community commitment

ViableConsortialStandard

Agenda

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-NetBuyer

awareness& 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

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 . . .

Thank You!

rabel@imsglobal.orghttp://www.imsglobal.org/

@LearningImpact

#imsglobal

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