Teachers are often greatly limited in the educational technology they can use in their classes because it becomes increasingly complex to use on the web software from many different vendors. Students must get a separate account for each new system, teachers need to jump between systems to assess and grade student work and transfer grades between the different systems. Thorough the IMS Global Learning Consortium (www.imsglobal.org), the marketplace is developing standards that will allow course rosters and roles to be moved from one system to another and for graded to be moved between systems without rewiring hand-copying of data between systems. The new standard is called 'IMS Learning Tools Interoperability'. For example if your school uses Moodle and you would like to use www.chemvantage.org for Chemistry homework, you can simply 'plug' ChemVantage into Moodle and the rest is handled automatically. This presentation will introduce IMS Learning Tools Interoperability at a very high level and show some demonstrations of it working with Sakai, Moodle, and Blackboard. Speaker: Dr. Charles Severance University of Michigan School of Information http://www.dr-chuck.com/ twitter: @drchuck Bio/Pictures: http://www.dr-chuck.com/dr-chuck/resume/bio.htm

1. Empowering Teachers with More
Pluggable Educational Technology
Dr. Charles Severance
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Michigan School of Information
www.dr-chuck.com
http://www.slideshare.net/csev

2. Dr. Chuck's Book
• Available as a paper-book on
Amazon, CreateSpace
• Available for Kindle or Nook
• Grouchy teacher focused on
building innovative software
fighting with management

3. Web 2.0 Is AWESOME!
I love it when people say that we don't need
educational technology any more - just use
a blog, wiki, RSS feed, diggo, and a few other
free things and voila! You can teach!

4. Web 2.0 Is AWESOME!
I love it when people say that we don't need
educational technology any more - just use
a blog, wiki, RSS feed, diggo, and a few other
free things and voila! You can teach!
This sounds a lot better in a keynote speech
than in real life.

5. Case Study: Amanda Severance
• Senior in Special Education
• Technology in the Classroom
Curse
• Eleven different accounts
• Setup required technical support
2:35

6. http://www.vimeo.com/24144611
4tvirtual

7. Open Source is AWESOME!
With an Open Source Learning Managment
System, you can change it and add new
innovations without waiting for your
vendor!

8. Open Source is AWESOME!
With an Open Source Learning Managment
System, you can change it and add new
innovations without waiting for your
vendor!
This sounds a lot better in a keynote speech
than in real life.

9. An Important Lesson...
• Students and Teachers literally do
not care at all if their learning
software is open source
• They are limited by the software
that is installed and upgraded by
their local IT staff
• IT organizations fear innovation even
if their software is open source

10. The Problem...
• Teachers and students need flexibility in
their environment
• We need to bring the tools and content
that the teachers need into the
environment they already have rather
than making a new environment for
every new tool of content

11. ...

12. Can the Tool/Content
Solve this?
LEARNING
TOOL OR
CONTENT

13. Can the Tool/Content
Solve this?
LEARNING
TOOL OR
CONTENT
No.

14. A Bit of Personal
History...

15. Internet: TCI Show 08
http://www.vimeo.com/4275919
1:22
0:52

16. Sync-O-Matic
www.syncomat.com
1997

17. 2000 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csev/csev/projects/cb2k/index.htm

18. 2001 http://bit.ly/gGQ1e7

19. 2004

20. Dr. Chuck Travel 2004-2006

21. Dr. Chuck - Up in the Air

23. August 2006 -
February 2007

24. Cat Herding
2007-02
Ant Farm

25. Self-Service Exit Interview
Bring enterprise-level open source LMS into the Market
Collect bright worldwide developer community and achieve
sufficient adoption for sustainability
X Enable the rapid creation of new tools
08-2007
X Create a "Learning Tool App Store"
X Empower teachers to write, share and use lots of tools

26. Teach
Relax
Reflect
Recharge
2007-2008

27. 2007

29. Tools
Commercial Interoperability
Common Publishers
Cartridge
LMS
Open Source
Standards
2008
www.imsglobal.org

30. Early Work on
Standards
• IMS Learning Tools Interoperability
• Lots of convincing and cajoling (and beer)
• Strategic chess game
• Sakai, Blackboard, Moodle, ...
2009 http://www.vimeo.com/7825070 1:48

31. 05-2010

32. Joseph Berkovitz
<info@noteflight.com>
www.noteflight.com
L
T
I

33. Joseph Berkovitz
<info@noteflight.com>
www.noteflight.com
3:44 http://videos.noteflight.com/MoodleBasicLTI.mov

34. 4tvirtual
http://www.vimeo.com/24143640

35. www.coursesites.com

39. iLearnNYC
????

43. 2004
2008
1995
2011
1997

44. Enagaging open source, creating
standards, engaging propretary vendors,
evangelizing ideas, doing demos, building
"plumbing", all are important activities...
my long-term goal is to empower
teachers and learners as to how they
select, use and expand, technology to
help themselves teach and learn...

46. App Store for Learning Applications

47. Thank You
Dr. Charles Severance
University of Michigan School of Information
www.dr-chuck.com
@drchuck