1:15 - 2:15 pm - Discover. Share. Innovate! Models for Deploying Tools & Institutional Collaboration
Colleges and universities are reshaping how faculty discover teaching tools, share these models across the institution and create a wave of innovation from the classroom to IT. In this new digital world, institutions are finding new ways to work with each other and are helping to re-define what it means to discover, share and collaborate. Join this discussion to discover how new models for deploying digital tools and content are reshaping discovery, how universities are teaming up to get a faster return on investment, and how this is fostering innovation. Panelists include:
2:15 - 2:30 pm - Break
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Connecting Data Analytics and Accessibility to Support Personalized Learning for All
Whether it’s described as next gen learning, student-centered learning, or adaptive learning, it is the focus of many institutions to personalize learning to the unique needs of each student. While the customization of learning opportunities holds great potential for improving outcomes, it presents unique challenges. How can such a rich environment be achieved, what are some of the ways universities are reaching for this goal, and what are the key elements needed to make this a reality? The afternoon discussion brings together a diverse group of education leaders to share their thoughts and stories on how data analytics and inclusive accessibility means personalized learning for all students.
3:30 - 3:45 pm — Break
3:45 - 4:45pm - Today and Tomorrow: A Conversation About Education Technology as an Enabler to Academic Transformation
Colleges and Universities are facing unprecedented challenges and extraordinary new opportunities. How students are taught, how faculty teach and how IT supports these efforts is changing faster than ever. Join the IMS Global Higher Education Institutional Executive Board for a discussion about these challenges and opportunities, and help to shape and prioritize the work of IMS Global. We will brainstorm the top 5 current obstacles, work to identify the top 5 issues facing institutions over next 3-5 years, and work to develop ways in which IMS Global and its members can meet these challenges head-on.
4:45 - 5:30 pm - What is Coming Next? An Intimate Discussion with Vendors
What are some of the our key vendor partners doing and planning to do around actionable data analytics and accessibility? Find out in the day’s final session. Through an open call for proposals to key IMS Global vendor partners, four have been invited for an intimate conversation to share what they are doing today and their plans for the future to provide institutions with data analytics that are meaningful, useful and actionable, as well as their plans to reach towards true accessibility for all students
5:30 - 6:30 pm - Reception
AGENDA
1:00 - 1:15pm -- Welcome and Opening Comments
1:15 - 2:15pm -- Closing the Personalizing Instruction Gap
2:15 - 2:30pm -- Break
2:30 - 3:00pm -- Closing the Personalized Instruction Gap (con’t)
3:00 - 4:00pm -- Assessment & Analytics: What Does the Road Forward Look Like? -
A Vendor Roadmap Discussion
As districts continue to move to an integrated technology ecosystem for personalized learning great progress has been made but there is still more work to be done to close the gap and achieve a prescriptive, personalized learning ecosystem. To reach this goal, much of the work lies with the deep integration of assessments and analytics.
The K-12 Institutional Executive Board has invited key vendors to share their current and future product plans to support this goal and to close the gap. Vendors will share with the group a brief explanation of how they are currently supporting assessments and analytics in K-12. They will also discuss key drivers that are furthering the work in the K-12 analytics and assessment arena.
4:00 - 4:15pm -- Break
4:15 - 5:00 pm - Discover and Share: Success Stories of Interoperability Standards in Action
From OneRoster to LTI and Thin Common Cartridge to QTI/APIP, districts and vendors are making strides for an integrated environment through interoperability. Hear how four vendor partners are not only adopting IMS interoperability standards, but are applying the standards to help school districts succeed in addressing their specific instructional needs. Solutions range from ways to improve access to digital content and resources to use of data to personalize learning opportunities for students.
5:00pm - 5:30pm -- Taking IMS Standards to the Next Level: Where do we go next?
The day concludes with an open dialogue and brainstorming session that reflects on the sessions. This session serve as a planning time to outline the work for the Communities of Practice and the K-12 Institutional Executive Board for the next 6 to 9 months.
5:30pm - 6:30 pm -- Reception
Is your institution ready for next generation digital learning environments, featuring plug & play digital resources, learning tools, real-time analytics, competencies? More importantly, are you helping to invent next generation digital learning at your institution? This new generation of learning environment will go hand-in-hand with evolving strategies and leadership. No one has all the answers, but new collaborations are beginning to shape this next generation and new opportunities for collaboration among leading institutions are emerging. During the opening session, Rob Abel, CEO of IMS Global, will kick off a series of Next Generation Digital Learning lightning talks that will explore what the next generation is and how we get there.
The Dutch ministry of Education is delivering a large number of high stake summative exams and innovative diagnostic tests as CBT. In the year 2018, we expect over two million CBT deliveries per year on 8000 schools.
The nature of each type of exam or test is different. Some of them contain only basic MC items, others include innovative items like autoscored paragraph separation, text correction and formulas. In the near future we expect speech recording and autoscored graphical elements.
To meet all requirements, we developed a new innovative open source testing system, called Facet. Facet is designed to work with the QTI standard. In order to handle all the innovative item types, specific layouts and metadata, we created a QTI profile and a set of extensions together with Cito, called the Dutch Exam Profile (DEP).
In this session we will discuss the decisions we’ve made over the years to where we stand today. We will demonstrate innovative item types, go in depth on DEP and share with you our experiences on designing via architecture, developing, hosting, implementing and supporting the Facet system. Finally, we will discuss how this lead to our growing involvement in IMS and the EBA.
The initial models for building and using OERs has a life cycle that was personally bound to the faculty member who wanted to create a resource for their teaching and sometime shared openly with others. Today, the OER life cycle has broadened to include institutional developed OER libraries (OpenStax), open education resource creators (Kahn Academy) to OER communities (Merlot II). This session will look at the life cycle of an OER and the importance and role IMS standards have from creation to the classroom.
Students are beginning to learn computer science at an early age in this unique school that puts technology at the center of all of their school activities. Learn what happens inside and outside the classroom when student have access to mobile computing 24/7. Session attendees will leave with ideas and models for offering K-5 Computer Science to students in their own districts.
Our lives are driven by our ability to access and retrieve information — all kinds of information in a multitude of formats. Whether it is a book, the web, or a video, access to information is key to student success. Yet despite the fact that our world is filled with digital technology, barriers to access are ubiquitous. This is a problem, however, that can be solved through campus leadership, willingness for change, and a trained workforce. This discussion will focus on how two campuses are meeting these challenges through the integration of accessibility standards, what is needed to achieve effective digital accessible content, and what the future might look like when all students have equal access.
Introductions
2:00 - 2:20 Roadmap Planning: Expanding IMS Collaboration to Accelerate Market AdoptionProcess Overview - Mark Leuba
2:20 - 2:30 API Discussion and Delivery - Colin Smythe
2:30 - 3:15 Technical Workgroup Updates
- Current and priority projects for the upcoming year
- Issues for discussion
LTI Services
LTI Mobile
LTI
Common Cartridge
EDUPUB
OpenVideo
OneRoster
Future of LIS
Caliper
QTI
Digital Credentials and CBE
Curriculum Standards Framework
CASA
Access for All
Privacy
3:30 - 4:10 pm
Panel Discussion: OneRoster – Where Are We Now, and What’s Next?
Moderator: Berj Akian, CEO & Founder, ClassLink
Industry leaders will discuss the strategic thinking behind this pivotal data standard and examine the implications on product development and business strategy.
Panelists:
Steve Gilmer - SVP of Technical Services, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Marc Nelson - VP Product Management, Pearson Learning Services
Marisa Urbano - Sr. Director of Product Management, eCommerce and Integrations, McGraw-Hill Education
TJ Vering - Sr. Program Manager, Education Product Group, Microsoft
4:15- 4:55 pm
Panel Discussion: How do we expand adoption of Caliper?
Moderator: Jenn Stringer, Associate CIO, UC Berkeley
Product designers and specialists in learning analytics share their strategies and recommendations for taking Caliper learning analytics adoption the next level.
Panelists:
Al Essa - Vice President, Analytics and R&D, McGraw-Hill Education
Linda Feng - Senior Product Manager, Platform, Instructure
Bradley Fordham, Ph.D. - Chief Technology Officer, Echo360
Viktor Haag - Architect - Platform and Standards, D2L
Chris Vento -CEO/Founder, Intellify Learning
John Whitmer, Ed.D. - Learning Analytics and Research Director, Blackboard Inc.
8:30 - 9:00
Introductions
Discussion of Executive Board’s Purpose and Role
9:00 - 9:30
CBE and Extended Transcript Project
Progress and Roadmap Discussion
9:30 - 9:45
Open Badge Extensions for Education and Discussion
Progress and Roadmap
9:45 - 10:00
Boardmember recommendations for project strategies and priorities
Caliper Bootcamp (Draft)
8:30am - 8:45 am10:00 am - 10:30 am
10:30 am- Noon
LTI Bootcamp
IMS is making available class libraries to make it simpler to adopt the LTI specification, including its associated services. This bootcamp will take participants through a worked example using sample code in PHP. It will demonstrate how to build an LTI Tool Provider application which can be launched from an LTI 1 Tool Consumer and take advantage of the improved user experience offered by the Content-Item message. The same application will then be enhanced to add support for LTI 2.
The Tool Provider application will contain a simple Caliper event so that the related LTI services can be used to show how events can be captured across system boundaries allowing a more holistic view of a user's activities to be gathered.
Approximate timetable:
0830-0945
Quick introduction to LTI
Overview LTI Class Library for PHP and the sample Tool Provider application
Processing an LTI launch message
Adding support for the Content-Item message workflow
0945-1015 Break
1015-1200
Enabling LTI 2 support: Registration messages and Tool Proxies
More example services with adding Caliper support
08:30-09:00 BootCamp Introductions
09:00-10:00 OneRoster v1.0 and OneRoster v1.1 Data Model
OneRoster v1.0 OneRoster v1.1 REST Binding
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 OneRoster v1.0 and v1.1 CSV Binding
OneRoster CSV TestSet, Validation & Conformance
11:30-12:00 OneRoster v1.0 and v1.1 REST Conformance
OneRoster v1.0 and v1.1 REST API
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-16:30 Interoperability Readiness Discussion - Learn about the current status of OneRoster Conformance Certifications. Find out which organizations are implementing OneRoster and how Organizations are working together to provide OneRoster services to Institutions.
16:30-17:00 OneRoster 1.2 Proposals
10:30-12:00
Validate CBE data model & JSON-LD media type based on existing pilot eT
1:00 -3:00
Review and prototype of CBE Results Reporting connected to eT
3:30-5:00
Define Research Plan to document student and consumer input/feedback on the prototype
Update project work plan and goals going into August
Technical Meeting
1-2pm - Caliper v1.1 Status and Deliverables
2-3pm - Caliper v1.1 Conformance
3-3:30pm - Break
3:30 - 5pm - LTI and Caliper Review LTI v1.x integration with Caliper,New Metric Profiles, CoP Considerations and Documentation
