Update on EduStandard:public-private platform in Dutch education

Henk Nijstad, Kennisnet / november 2013

www.edustandaard.nl

Standards! Why are they so important?

• They form the fundamental building blocks

• They create compatibility and interoperability

• They fuel the national en international trade of content

• They create transparency

• They prevent a vendor lock in

EduStandaard = public private cooperation

Almost all relevant stakeholders in Education are represented:

• Ministery of Education

• DUO (administrative agency, fundig of schools)

• SLO (curriculum)

• Exams (CITO, CVE)

• Publishers

• VLE’s

• Learning management systems (administration)

• ….

• Schools representatives !!

We use educational standards in three areas

EDUCATION Administration

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Standardisation Board

Architecture Board

Governance model, public private partnership

Working group

Working group

Working group

Working group

Working group

Supporting office (Kennisnet / SURF)

Strategic level

Tactical level

Operational level

Standardization process

Research Development Testing EvaluationModification Registration

Administration

Communication Support Adoption strategy

Schools Suppliers

selecting learning materials

providing learning materials

Mixing learning materials

Using learning materials

learning materials

policy

make it discoverable

distribution and access

the actual using

development

findability

accessibility

use

Process architecture – educational content chain

Schools Suppliers

Working group: “search & find learning material”• NL-LOM (Dutch application profile IEEE-LOM)

• Price information (extra set of metadata)

• OnderwijsBegrippenKader (Dutch digital curriculum)

selecting learning materials

make it discoverablefindability

Public broker service• EduRep

SuppliersSchools

Working group: “distribution / logistics of (digital) learning material”

• ECK standard framework “Distribution and Access”

A description of webservices about:

• Accounts, Profile data, Orders, Distribution, Payment, Licenses and

Product lists

providing learning materials

distribution and accessaccessibility

Public broker service

• Entree & Kennisnet Federation

Schools

Suppliers

Working group: “the use of learning content”

• UWLR (Dutch standard, exchange of student results)

• Standards on student files for switching from primary => secundary

• LTI under investigation

• OBK (semantic datamodel of educational

concepts)

• NL-QTI (Dutch application profile)

Mixing learning materials

the use of learning materials

the actual usingusefulness

And new areas of standardisation

Administrative domain

• Standards supporting administrative processes like:

• Transfer of student portfolio from primary => secondary => higher

education

• Benchmarking

• Digitally signing up to a school (vocational, secundary, ..)

• Identity management for students, teachers, etc

• Semantics in administrative domain, to support processes

Learning analytics

• Data standardisation on learning analytics