The document discusses enabling new teaching and learning technologies at the University of Michigan. It summarizes Dr. Charles Severance's work in founding the IMS Global Learning Consortium in 1999 to develop learning management system standards, founding the open source Sakai LMS in 2004, and more recent efforts to create standards for integrating learning tools and a store for educational applications. The goal is to empower teachers and learners to easily access and expand the technology they need for teaching and learning.

1. Enabling the Next Generation of Teaching
and Learning Technology at Michigan
Dr. Charles Severance
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Michigan School of Information
www.dr-chuck.com
http://www.slideshare.net/csev

4. Michigan Impact
• 1999 - Founding Member of IMS Global Learning Consortium to
develop stansards for interoperable learning management systems -
Carl Berger
• 2004 - Founded Sakai Open Source Learning Management System - #4
in the current marketplace - Joseph Hardin and James Hilton

5. 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 almost always
fear innovation

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

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

8. Case Study: LMS Plugins
LEARNING
TOOL OR
CONTENT

9. Case Study: LMS Plugins
LEARNING
TOOL OR
CONTENT

10. Case Study: LMS Plugins
LEARNING
TOOL OR
CONTENT

11. Case Study: LMS Plugins
LEARNING
TOOL OR
CONTENT
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12. A Bit of Personal History...

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

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

16. Title: Using Asynchronous, Web-based,
Video to Humanize Distance Education
1998

17. 1999
http://webcast.cern.ch/Projects/WebLectureArchive/kunz/

18. 2000 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csev/csev/projects/cb2k/index.htm

19. 2001 http://bit.ly/gGQ1e7

20. 2003

21. 2003

23. 2004

24. Dr. Chuck Travel 2004-2006

25. Dr. Chuck - Up in the Air

26. Dr. Chuck - Up in the Air

27. Sakai: The Social Network

31. August 2006 -
February 2007

32. August 2006 -
February 2007

33. Blackboard Patent Pledge
Blackboard hereby commits not to assert any of
the U.S. patents listed below, as well as all
counterparts of these patents issued in other
countries, against the development, use or
distribution of [any] Open Source Software or
Home-Grown Systems to the extent that such
Open Source Software and Home-Grown Systems
are not Bundled with proprietary software.
February 2007

34. Cat Herding
2007-02
Ant Farm

35. 2007-05

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

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

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

39. 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
2007
Create a "Learning Tool App Store"
Empower teachers to write, share and use lots of tools

40. 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
2007
X Create a "Learning Tool App Store"
Empower teachers to write, share and use lots of tools

41. 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
2007
X Create a "Learning Tool App Store"
X Empower teachers to write, share and use lots of tools

43. 2007-2008

44. Teach
Relax
Reflect
Recharge
2007-2008

45. Teach
Relax
Reflect
Recharge
2007-2008

46. 2007

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

49. 2008

50. 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

51. 2010

52. 2010

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

59. 2004
1995 2008
2011
1997

60. Enagaging open source, creating
standards, engaging propretary vendors,
evangelizing ideas, doing demos, building
"plumbing", all are important activities...

61. 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...

63. App Store for Learning Applications

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