Technology and the Promise of Individualized Learning

Ira GoldsteinSiena College Computer Science

Department

Systems Integration

• Closed systems• Not easily combined– Often a manual task

• Data exchange– SIS– User ID (multiple log-ins)– Curriculum– Assessment– Capture– Digital content

IMS Global Learning Consortium

• Open Platform• Plug and Play• Standards

Standards

• Reduces vendor lock-in– More content choices

• Increase sharing and reuse of content• Improves interoperability

Standards• Common cartridge (CC)

– Course material, assessment, discussion forums content interoperability• Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)

– Login, Progress, outcome data• Learning Information Services (LIS)

– SIS<->LMS• Interactive Whiteboard Common File Format (IWB)

– Interoperability of interactive whiteboard content• Accessible Portable Item Protocol (APIP) and Question & Test

Interoperability (QTI)– Assessment interoperability

• Question Markup Language (QML)

Flow

Identity Management

• Access control• Highly manual and often inconsistent process

for user provisioning• Loss of end-user productivity • Security gaps and risk • Managing identities across systems– Costly– Time-consuming

Alternatives

• Single Sign On (SSO)• Single Identity, Multiple Sign On• Federation• Password synchronization• Active Directory• LDAP• Kerberos• Radius

Provisioning

• Data Flow– Centralized or Decentralized

• Authorization• Authoritative Source• Access Control• Self-service?

Miscellaneous

Citations• http://writinghouse.org/

Food• http://spectrum.ieee.org

/consumer-electronics/gadgets/adventures-in-printing-food

IMPACT

• January 10, 2014• Up to 4 students• goo.gl/s7kvIh

Q & A