2017 Learning Impact Leadership Institute

The next meeting of the IMS Global Higher Education Institutional Leadership Board will take place on Tuesday, May 16, 10:00 am – Noon. This meeting is exclusively for institutional leaders that represent the Contributing Member HED institutions on the board who are helping to shape the work of the IMS community.

 During this two-hour meeting we will:

• Continue to evolve the Collaborative App Vetting Environment (App Registry) that will foster a collaborative approach for vetting third-party tools and help your campus streamline the vetting process.
• Develop an implementable, common strategy for identifying and solving emerging pain points by advancing integration capabilities.
• Design a strategy for on-boarding and expanding the collection and use of learning data on campuses by: (1) Identifying a common core of data profiles that are relevant to institutions; (2) brainstorm high-value use cases and examples focused on faculty empowerment, student success, and a strategic decision-making; (3) examine the feasibility and implementation of a cross-institutional analytics pilot using this core.

1. Welcome & Introductions
   The more we know each other, the better we can collaborate. Learn about an IMS member you are not familiar with. Questions to discuss: how long have you been involved with IMS and what got you involved with IMS.
   
   
2. Discussion/Activity: Moving All Suppliers to Conformance Certification
   The promise of interoperability is possible if standards are ubiquitous in the marketplace.  Ensuring that products meet the quality test of IMS certification is the insurance districts need to feel confident that a plug and play ecosystem can be a reality. How can we collectively move suppliers to certify their products?
   
   •  Presentation: Lessons Learned From Member Districts
   •  Open Discussion: What Strategies Work Best/Are Most Effective? 
   •  Review: Resources Currently in Playbook
   •  Activity: What New Resources and Strategies Are Needed?
   
   
3. What can we do to drive adoption of the standards among school districts?
   Though we have success among the current members who have “drunk the Kool-aid”, we need to increase awareness and buy-in from the larger K-12 community.
   
   
4. Updates from ILNs -  Questions and concerns about current efforts.
   In order to decide where to go, we need to know where we’ve been. The Institutional Board will be updated on the current work and presented with a project plan for the next three months.
   
   
5. Closing

• Evolving the EdTech Master Plan: Strategies for Institutional Leaders
  (20 Minutes): Institutions are finding different ways to foster cross-campus collaborations and engaging in highly successful strategic conversations to architect effective edtech visions and master plans. In this session, we will define strategies for sharing an institution’s edtech maturity model. We will also, as a group, identify and develop some useful resources to help make this conversation accessible to all partnerships. Moderator: Sean DeMonner, University of Michigan; Panelists: Leif Nelson, Boise State University; Virginia Lacefield, University of Kentucky; Bart Pursel, Penn State University.
  

• Group Activity: How is your Institution Collaborating to Reimagine EdTech for Innovation? (20 minutes)

• Institutional Collaborations that are Innovating Campus EdTech (20 minutes)
  
  • Adaptive Learning – Transforming Adaptive to Adaptable: An IT and Academic Meeting Point (20 minutes) - Moderator: Mary-Ellen Kreher; Dale Johnson, ASU
    
  • Leveraging Learning Data: Student Dashboards – More than just an IT Solution (20 minutes) - Moderator: Sean DeMonner; Panelists: Anthony Newman, Purdue University; Oliver Heyer, University of California - Berkeley

• What are your institution’s learning data goals?
• Where are you on the path to reaching these goals?
• How can IMS help accelerate your progress?

With the myriad of digital systems that school districts are using today, student performance information and usage data exists in silos. What processes, strategies and technologies will help aggregate data across the digital ecosystem? IMS Global’s K-12 Summit brings together thought leaders to explore these issues, learn from each other and determine how to ensure student success using data and analytics.

1:00 – 1:15 pm -- Welcome, Introductions and Opening Comments

• What are districts and states doing to advance and enable using data and analytics from across the digital ecosystem to inform pedagogical decisions?
• What kinds of processes, strategies and technologies don’t yet exist to enable real-time pedagogical decisions based on student performance and metrics the digital ecosystem?
• How can leaders build relationships between instructional and technology leaders that enables student-centered learning systems?

2:15 - 3:00 pm -- Table Talk Discussions: Learning from Others’ Experiences

• What privacy concerns do institutions have when rostering data?
• What prevents district leaders from making the most of the data available in the entire digital ecosystem?
• What prevents teachers from making the most of the data available in the entire digital ecosystem?
• Are there strategies to assist teachers in reducing the need for double data entry (e.g. creating an assignment in one platform and then manually entering results into the student information system)?

3:00 – 3:30pm -  Break

• Dealing with multiple points of entry, usernames and passwords can be solved with “one-click” system integration strategies
• Gathering performance and assessment outcomes from siloed applications resolved by implementing integration tools to transmit the data automatically to your system of record
• Simplify the adoption and use of digital content by aggregating resources through a portal

• What are the three key ideas that you will take away from today’s summit to implement a plug and play approach to using data and analytics to support student centered learning?
• What are the top two things that the IMS community should focus on based on everything you heard today?
• What is one important way can we collaboratively expedite adoption of IMS standards?

Join us for a half day bootcamp where you will learn the basics of getting started with Caliper Analytics®.  We will cover the Caliper Information Model, the Sensor API, JSON-LD and Conformance.

8:30 AM  Understanding the Basics of Caliper: The Information Model

9:30 AM  Using the Sensor APIs: Exercises to Help You Get Started

10:00 AM Break

10:15 AM  Continuation of work on the Sensor APIs

11:00 AM Using JSON-LD in Caliper

11:30 AM  Learn the Process for Getting IMS Caliper Analytics Certified


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We’re in a world of innovation where radical new technologies are changing how customers access content. We see the emergence of a more customer-centric, mobile friendly, personalized, team-based & collaborative world and the digital interactions expand beyond the screen as it is changing both product and practice. Customers want a micro experience which could be small, subtle, affordable and memorable touches that can resonate for years. Does this change the UI / UX approach into a “customized UX” model? How should we handle metadata, taxonomy to enable the content to be more accessible and discoverable? How does this impact the overall product strategy and experience?

Learn about the disruption at hand for the way leaders lead education digitally, and solutions based on interviews and discussions with hundreds of education leaders across the U.S. LeiLani will share how schools are finding a new relevancy at the natural end-point of digital transition: maximized live experience and quality digital learning, also known as “expo” education. Gain leadership advice combined with valuable education market insights from the dynamic founder of the Learning Counsel and author of the book, The Consumerization of Learning.

During her breakout session, LeiLani will touch upon:

• The digital curriculum transition national survey findings.
• Sustainability in the age of digital management for schools.
• The end-point of digital transition: maximized live experience and quality digital learning, also known as Expo Education.
• A software model architecture.
• A digital curriculum evaluation matrix and how to use it.

Latest Specification Updates 

• Caliper   
• Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange  
• Data Use Label
• Extended Transcript
• Open Badges
• LTI 2.1
• Gradebook Services 2.0
• OneRoster 1.1/1.2
• Access for All/QTI v3.0
• OpenVideo 1.0

Conformance Processes

• Recertify Requirements
• Conformance Directory
• Validators

Break

Program and Product Management

• Product Steering Committee Updates

• Program Management Practices

Technical Process Management

• Expanded Use of GitHub
• Code libraries
• Specification authoring processes, outputs and OpenAPI
• Agile workgroup management using GitHub projects
• Identity Management and Source ID's

Open Mic 

• Discuss any problems that occurred in the process of these connections, implications, next steps
• Discussion of discoverable end-points? How will that happen?
• Create a proposal for how a CC, TCC, certificate, eT, etc will reference a framework.
• Establishing trust and stable identifiers (for example from Common Core)