1. International Activities
New Zealand
Presented by:
Joerg Huber; Systemic Pty Ltd (Australia)

2. Student Information Sharing Initiative (SiSi)
A4L – New Zealand
Student Information Sharing Initiative (SiSi)
Scotts Valley, California
February 2017
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3. New Zealand - SiSi
Ministry of Education New Zealand is the newest Locale that intends to use/promote SIF!
Mission
The education system digital strategy sets out a digital infrastructure for information flow across the education system to improve the learner experience and ability to efficiently collect data to support better decision-making and Government investments in education.
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4. New Zealand – SiSi (cont.)
Current State
No standards for student information
Each school SIS has with its own data format.
Information doesn’t easily “flow” with the students when they change schools.
Time consuming process to collect data at new school.
Largely based around phone calls, paper work etc.
Ministry of Education (MoE) collects Data at the National Level.
Data collection is performed periodically.
Difficult to get hold of data in a manageable format.
Considerable manual work to ensure sufficient quality of data.
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5. New Zealand – SiSi (cont.)

6. New Zealand – SiSi (cont.)
Student Information Sharing Initiative (SiSi)
Goal
Introduction of a centralised repository for core student information.
Master information source for the student record and data collections by education agencies.
School SIS systems will update the central repository by means of APIs defined centrally.
The APIs and data model will be standardised.
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7. New Zealand – SiSi (cont.)

8. New Zealand – SiSi (cont.)
Drivers for SIF
Open Integration Standard with:
Well defined API using modern technologies.
Well defined Infrastructure
Scalable & Secure!
Flexibility to use any data model
Originated from the Education Sector
Well established standard used in several countries.
Australia’s Data Model is a close fit for the NZ requirements.
No need to start from scratch but can leverage from many existing projects.
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9. New Zealand – SiSi (cont.)
Current Position
Explore use cases for SiSi based on SIF 3 REST-based infrastructure.
NZ is currently working informally with NSIP to evaluate the potential to use the SIF AU data model for the NZ education sector.
Learning Services Architecture & SIF3 Data Hub pattern provides an excellent basis for communicating what MoE NZ aims to achieve with SiSi.
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10. New Zealand – SiSi (cont.)
Where can Australia help?
Similar education systems / terminology
Wanting to address similar problems.
Overlapping vendor (and student) community.
NSIP has established expertise and a community around SIF.
NZ needs to develop maturity in this space and is seeking guidance and help:
Learn from others to avoid mistakes.
Tap into the extensive SIF 3 knowledge available in Australia.
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11. Special Thanks to… Ministry of Education New Zealand (MoE NZ)
Gerard Aberdeen – Programme Director
Sandy Britain – Enterprise Architect, ICT Strategy, Planning & Architecture
Tony Hewett – Data Architect
Philip Charles – Solution Architect iED
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12. Questions? ?
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