Directions for Standards in Teaching and Learning

Dr. Charles SeveranceUniversity of Michigan School of Information

www.dr-chuck.com

Euro Sakai - January 29, 2013

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

le succès a un millier de parents...

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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

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

• Available soon as an Indie Release

LTI Extensions - Post-2.9

• LessonBuilder API - XML + OAuth

• Retrieve Course Structure

• Add folder, link or collection of LTI links to LessonBuilder at any point in the hierarchy

• See BLTI-203 in JIRA

• Should be out in the April timeframe indie release

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

Post Post Sakai 2.9

• LTI 2.0 - Implementation starts May 2013 - Should be done in 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

HTTP/1.0 200 OKDate: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:09:42 GMTContent-Type: application/jsonX-LORI-Message: Retrieval complete 0.25ms.Content-Length: 1423

[ { "@id":" https://locahost:8080/lori/course/12345/content/", "label":"SI 124", "title":"Social Computing" }, { "@id":" https://locahost:8080/lori/course/82845/content/", "label":"SI 502", "title":"Networked Information" }, { "@id":" https://locahost:8080/lori/course/92929/content/", "label":"SI 572", "title":"Web Design" }] LTI 2.0 REST3/JSON-LD

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

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