Dr. Charles SeveranceUniversity of Michigan School of Information

www.dr-chuck.com

June 5, 2013

Directions for Standards in Teaching and Learning

During this talk, I am not speaking for the University of Michigan, I am not speaking for

Blackboard, Inc., I am not speaking for the IMS Global Learning Consortium, and I am not

speaking for anyone except for myself.

Quick History Review

Nine Years Ago - February 19, 2004 - Sakai All Hands Meeting @ Stanford

At 02:28 PM 3/2/2004 -0500, Chris Etesse wrote:

Chuck, Jeff and Babi,

It was my pleasure talking to you both during my travels recently - Chuck in person in Edinburgh and Jeff & Babi via phone from Europe. As promised, I wanted to pass on a link to a white paper we just released on Blackboard & Standards as well as restate my invitation to host a meeting at Blackboard with Chuck to discuss how we can interoperate going forward. Finally, the second link is to the Blackboard SDK's for our various products - I thought it might be of some interest. I look forward to working closer with you each.

Warmest regards,

Christopher Etesse Senior Director of Technology Blackboard Inc.

DRAFT Software Portability Workgroup Prospectus DRAFT

The current trend in web-based systems for eLearning has been moving steadily towards increasing componentization and modularity. This trend is driven to a large extent by the desire for systems deployers to easily enhance system functionality to more quickly and effectively support the maturing demands of LMS users. Three notable examples are referenced here:

Blackboard Building BlocksSakai’s Tool Portability ProfileWebCT PowerLinks SDK

Joseph Hardin University of Michigan September 3, 2004

Brainstorming at IMS Meeting in Denver 2004-10-19

Colleagues:

It looks like we have about 25 individuals (give or take) attending the SCP/SCA/Board meeting on 4/27/2005 from 1-5 pm. This includes the Board (9). See list below. At this point, I'd rather not invite any more people.

Textbook Publishers Invited/Attending............................................... Allen Noren, O'Reilly & Associates -- ATTENDINGRay Henderson, Pearson Education -- ATTENDINGSchoen, Steve, Thomson Higher Education -- ATTENDINGDavid Serbun, Houghton Mifflin Company -- ATTENDINGJonathan Stowe, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. -- ATTENDINGGlenn Kammen, Intelecom -- ATTENDING

Vivian 'Vivie' SinouDean, Distance & Mediated LearningFoothill College

Publisher Meeting @ Stanford

June 21, 2005, IMS Alt-I-Lab Sheffield, UK

June 21, 2006 IMS Alt-I-Lab

Indianapolis, IN

February 2007

Standards

Commercial

Open Source

LMS

Publishers

www.imsglobal.org

CommonCartridge

ToolsInteroperability

2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-Ogkc7MnwJuly 2012

Success has a thousand parents..

Current State

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/11/07/tech-officials-weigh-big-data-moocs-and-open-source

Sakai 2.9

• IMS LTI Tool - IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 1.1

• Tool Launch

• Grade Return

• Lesson Builder - IMS Common Cartridge 1.1 Import

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/basiclti/trunk/basiclti-docs/resources/docs/sakai_basiclti_api.doc

Sakai 2.9 LTI Extensions

• Roster API - Allows an external tool to get the entire roster of a course with roles and grade callbacks (Sakai 2.9)

• Settings API - Allows eternal tool to store and retrieve up to 4K of settings (Sakai 2.9)

• XML + OAuth

Lesson Builder Post Sakai 2.9

• LessonBuilder

• IMS Common Cartridge 1.2 Import (2.9.1)

• IMS Common Cartridge 1.1, 1.2 Export (2.9.3) - very nice to have for OER

LTI in 2.9.2

• Lessons API - XML + OAuth

• Retrieve Lessons Structure

• Add folder, link or collection of LTI links to LessonBuilder at any point in the hierarchy - every link can accept grades

• See BLTI-203 in JIRA and developer documentation in the source tree

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/basiclti/branches/BLTI-203/https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/basiclti/trunk/basiclti-docs/resources/docs/

Looking Forward

Sakai 2.9.3?

• University of Michigan has made amazing changes to Site Info to auto-place LTI 1.1 tools

• Zhen Quian, John Johnston, Beth Kirschner

• The majority of the code is running in CTools right now, and an ever prettier version is now in trunk

• I would like to see this in 2-9-x and 2.9.3

LTI 1.1 - Next-Gen Learning Tools

• Coursera should soon support LTI 1.1 (Announced at the Partners Conferernce)

• edX will be supporting LTI 1.1 (even if I have to write it)

• NovoEd (formerly VentureLabs) interested in using LTI 1.1 as its first expansion option

On My Summer Vacation...

• LTI 2.0 - My highest priority for the summer

• Application Store Use Case - Automatic Provisioning

• Service Registry - External Tool Requests Access to Services - workflow for Admin to approve Facebook-Style

• Will lay the groundwork for wide range of standard and extension services

• https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/BLTI-230

LTI 2.0 To Date...

• IMS and Ingram Sponsored ROR reference implementation of LTI 2.0

• Simple (easy to read) LTI 2.0 implementation in PHP

• Work is starting on code UI chenges for LTI 2.0 in coordination with UMich

• I am working on getting funding for a Moodle LTI 2.0 reference implementation

http://www.dr-chuck.com/BLTI-230/tc.phphttps://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/basiclti/branches/BLTI-230/basiclti-docs/resources/

docs/sakai-api-test

{ "@context": [ "http:\/\/www.imsglobal.org\/imspurl\/lti\/v2\/ctx\/ToolProxy", "http:\/\/purl.org\/blackboard\/ctx\/v1\/iconStyle" ], "@type": "ToolProxy", "@id": "http:\/\/localhost\/~csev\/BLTI-230\/51af451a47c48", "lti_version": "LTI-2p0", "tool_proxy_guid": "98765", "tool_consumer_profile": "http:\/\/localhost\/~csev\/BLTI-230\/tc_profile.php", "tool_profile": { "product_instance": { "product_info": { "product_version": "0.3", "technical_description": { "default_value": "Simple LTI 2 PHP Implementation", "key": "tool.technical" }, ....

LTI 2.0 REST3/JSON-LD

LTI 2.0 Motivational Speech...

Sakai LTI SIGJuly 10, 2009

Summary

• Past: Sakai was essential to the past decade of progress in open standards for teaching and learning

• Present: Sakai 2.9 has excellent support for IMS LTI and IMS CC out of the box

• Short Term: We are polishing and extending our LTI 1.1 support

• Future: We are in a great position to continue to lead the industry forward in the areas of portability and interopability