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Panelists:

John T. Harwood , Associate Vice Provost, Information Technology Services, The Pennsylvania State University

Laura Patterson , Associate Vice President, Chief Information Officer, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; sittingin for Laura: Sean DeMonner , Director, Teaching & Learning, ITS, University of Michigan

Moderator:

Rob Abel , CEO, IMS Global Learning Consortium

THEMOVE TO OPEN STANDARDS:GETTING MORE FROM YOUR

ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY




The Open Innovation Revolution: Enable 10-100XImprovement in Adoption of Digital Learning

• IMS Global Learning Consortium– Non-profit alliance of institutions and suppliers collaborating to break the status quo of

closed, proprietary systems that make the use of digital technology difficult to use forteaching and learning

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Institutions can become more agile by simply requiring supplier conformanceto 3 proven IMS standards:

– Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) - Establishes a standard way of integrating richlearning applications with platforms like learning management systems, portals, orother educational environments.

– Common Cartridge (CC) - Provides a way to represent digital course materials, includingassessments and discussion forums, for use in online learning systems. Content can bedeveloped in one format and then used across a wide variety of learning systems.

– Learning Information Services (LIS) - Enables interoperability between teaching andlearning applications and student information systems; allowing student data, class dataand grades to move seamlessly between systems.

• Adoption enables any application to seamlessly plug into another withoutrequiring costly and timely custom integrations

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Enabling Next-Generation Digital Learning toImprove Access, Affordability and Attainment

• Can the education community collaborate to transform education?– Yes they can - and they are via the IMS Global Learning Consortium, a non-profit alliance of

institutions and suppliers collaborating to break the status quo of closed, proprietary systemsthat make the use of digital technology difficult to use for teaching and learning.

– Encouraging IMS conformance will save institutions 10-100X in the cost and time to integrateand support technology over previous integration strategies.

• Technology in Higher Education in Support of Student Success (THESIS)– Institutional strategy to enable institutions to be more agile and an innovative in the use of

digital applications, tools, and content to improve student success.– Simple framework to help improve the consistency and effectiveness of how faculty use

technology.– Facilitates information sharing about innovative and sustainable uses of technology to

improve access, affordability, and quality of personalized learning experiences.• Implementing THESIS is Fairly Simple!

– Schedule IMS webinar to provide overview of THESIS to cabinet members.– Sign-up by pledging institutional support for the underlying principals of the THESIS.– Utilize resources available in the THESIS toolkit and access to IMS community to support

adoption.– IMS serves as your authoritative resource to help your campus evolve to an open enterprise.

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Penn State IMS:Past, Present, and FutureThe Pennsylvania State UniversityJohn HarwoodAssociate Vice Provost, Information Technology Services



Present Initiatives• The value proposition for standards in

▫ Accessibility

▫ Learning Analytics

▫ Mobile & Classroom Application of LTI & LIS

▫ THESIS



Present Initiatives• Cross-university Collaboration on LTI:

▫ Voicethread

▫ Panopto

▫ YouSeeU



Future• Cross-university Collaboration:

▫ Library Reserves

▫ Piazza

▫ Turnitin (not yet in IMS)



Future•

Deep Linking Between Applications

• LTI & Shibboleth Coexistence

•

RFP & Software Licensing Agreements Include IMS Standards



University of Michigan



Historical Engagement• History of engagement with open movement in

general and IMS specifically• LTI: Piazza, LectureTools, xpLOR, CourseSmart,

CourseLoad, SiteMaker, FolioTek, etc.• LIS: Roster data from PeopleSoft SIS to directory• Common Cartridge: Sakai LessonBuilder• My personal journey…



Current Institutional Context

• Evolving modes of instruction and resulting tech demands• Emerging business models•

Reliance on multiple platforms and service providers• IT evolving from builders to integrators, but still need to

facilitate edge innovation• Move to Enterprise Architecture and strategic sourcing

including integration standards• Track record of success but new challenges arise daily: Box,

Google, local developments, MOOCs



Future Directions and Implications• Multiple platforms requires fewer integration standards• LTI 2.0, Analytics interchange formats•

Working in partnership with service providers (e.g.Coursera, local groups)• Involvement in THESIS



Get More From

Your EnterpriseTechnology




Join the THESIS Collaboration• Break the status quo of closed, proprietary systems• Become more agile in integrating new technologies and digital content,

and providing support for evolving new personalized learning

environments.• Enable content and data to be migrated from one platform to another

platform with ease.• Improve the consistency of how faculty utilized technology across the

institution, which in turn will enhance the student learning experience.• Facilitate information sharing about innovative and sustainable uses of

technology that can help improve access, affordability, and quality of personalized learning experiences.




Three Easy Steps to EnactingTHESIS on Your Campus

1. Request a free webinar for IMS staff to provide anoverview of THESIS to campus stakeholders

2. Sign-up by pledging institutional support for theunderlying principals of the THESIS program

3. Utilize the resources made available in the THESIStoolkit and leverage access to the IMS community to

support adoption




“We never again want to be held hostage with our content ,”admitted Finnell. “A big selling point for Blackboard was theability to say, ‘Hey, if we ever want to try another platform, weknow that our course content is backed by the IMS Global

Learning Consortium, and easily importable into other learningsystems.’”

-- Todd Finnell, Vice President for InformationalTechnology, Imperial Valley College

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“So many vendors have boasted “sure, we integrate

with your system” but what that really translates to is“we integrate with your system as long as your IT guysspend 6 months in a cave banging out code.”

LTI is a real return on investment for us and forsuppliers. We get the advantage of being able tointegrate a number of tremendous products into ourlearning environment and we don’t have to use our

limited resources on custom integrations since LTI is soeasy.”

-- Steve Kessinger, Director of IST, Bluefield College

http://www.bluefield.edu/






Thank You! Rob Abel

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