IMS ePortfolio Specifications Salzburg, Austria Andy Heath

2 What its about Responsibility for self-learning –Shift to authoring –Machine support for organisation Lifelong Learning How can we *not* get locked in ? Move portfolio from system to system

3 The Need for Standards We need standards for ePortfolios which enable –Portability of ePortfolios across applications –Comparability of portfolio data across organizations –Interoperability of applications with other systems Behaviors and services Darren Cambridge

4 What Kind of Standards and How Technical Interoperability Standards –NOT educational standards (we might need those too) Data and Services, Messaging –IMS and EPICC Implement them in products, organisations, feed back to standards (cycle)

5 Conflict Complete Interoperability requires –All portfolios do the same ? Common denominator –Conceptual pieces –Data exchange format –Iterative focus for further development One portfolio or many ?

6 Requirements Learning - Pre-formal, formal, post- formal Social – formal, informal –Workplace, family, community What kinds portfolio, what kinds of content, what kinds of authoring ? Accessible –This is a tough one.

7 IMS ep Specifications A data model for exchange of data Timeline –Formed May 2003 –Charter passed Technical Board December 2003 –Base Document passed April 2004 –Public Draft released September 2004 Open to public comment until November 12, 2004 –Final specification, if approved, to be released May 2005

8 Development of Specification Use cases from US, UK, Australia –Higher Ed., Lifelong Learning, Training Team members from US and UK. Co-chairs Darren Cambridge, Andy Heath Blackboard, IBM, Texas Instruments, Thompson Learning, Penn State University, University of California at Berkeley, EDUCAUSE, UK Center for Recording Achievement, UK CETIS,EU EPICC, link with BSI UK-LEAP.

9 IMS Specification Information Model (what) Binding (how – at this juncture) Best Practices (vocabs, suggestions) Rubric Examples and Schemas

10 Specifications supported IMS ACCLIP (Accessibility for LIP IMS RCDEO Reusable Definition of Competencies and Educational Objectives IMS Content Packaging IMS Enterprise Data Model IMS LIP

11 LIP ACCLIP RDCEO Enterprise XSL

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13 Issues Heterogeneous Portfolio Parts Managing vocabularies (Long Term) –VDEX may be partial answer Implementation and adoption support –Giunti, OSPI (others I can’t reveal) –Authentic examples – chicken and egg

14 Issues - continued Verification/authentication of content –How do I know X made this comment. Profiles for specific communities –E.g. EPICC initial medical profile Building communities of Practice and conceptual frameworks

15 Contact Points Specification – Adoption Support – List – eportfolio Open Source Portfolio Initiative – Andy Heath