1. How Standards Impact Software Business Decisions
How Do we deal with all these demands?
Steve Curtis - Kimono
Michelle Elia - CPSI
George Gatsis - Follett
Robert Iskander - West
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2. Standards Landscape Players
Common Core
College/Career Readiness
CEDS- Ed-Fi - A4L/SIF-
CEDS- Ed-Fi - A4L/SIF
A4L/SIF- IMS Global
Would Ed-Fi be able to claim Data Exchange Protocols?
IMS Global
A4L/SIF - IMS Global- PESC
A4L/SIF

3. SDO and Projects SDO / Project General Description
Access 4 Learning (A4L) / SIF
The A4L Community, previously the SIF Association, is collaboration of 3,000 schools, districts, local authorities, states, US and International Ministries of Education, and suppliers addressing learning information management and usage in a standard way regardless of the platform hosting.
Common Core State Standards
Council of Chief State Superintendent Organization (CCSSO) and National Governor’s Association (NGA) academic standards for mathematics and English language arts/literacy
Common Education Data Standards (CEDS)
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collaborative effort to “develop voluntary, common data standards for a key set of education data elements to streamline the exchange, comparison, and understanding of P-20W data”.
Ed-Fi Alliance
Underwritten by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Ed-Fi is “A community-driven Data Standard and Implementation Suite, an efficient, proven and easy-to-use array of tools that turn data into something schools can use”.
IMS Global
IMS Global is a collaborative inventing the future of educational and learning technology enabling a plug & play architecture and ecosystem that provides a foundation on which innovative products are rapidly deployed and work together.
Post-Secondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC)
PESC’s mission includes “enabling the portability of student data across the education” by “driving the open, transparent, community-based, collaborative development and alignment of data across disparate systems and across sectors.”

4. Standards – “Which for What”?
Functionality
IMS Global
PESC
Ed-FI Alliance
SIF Specs
Application Rostering ✔
HS Student Transcripts
Student Records Exchange
(course)
Data Storage
Pk12 Admin/Operation Systems
Student State ID Management
State Reporting / Data Collection Management
Assessment Delivery and Results
Digital Resource Exchange
Learning Analytics
Personalized Learning Assignment

5. Specification Usage Usage Levels IMS Specs PESC EdFi SIF
Used at K12 school level ✔
Used at K12 district level
Used at K12 regional service/local authority level
Used at K12 state/territory level
Used at K12 federal levels
Used in Higher Education

6. SDO Membership Costs Comparison*
IMS Global**
PESC
Ed-Fi Alliance***
A4L Community
Schools
$1,500-$5,000
$250-$2,500 NA $
States
$5,000
$10,000
$2750
Universities
$5-$15,000
$1650
Vendors $0-$5 mil
$1-$7,500
$2-$4,400
$5-25 mil
$15-$25,000
$7.5-$15,000
$6,600
$25-$100 mil
$55,000
$15,000
$9-$13,000
$100-$500 mil
$25,000
$18-$25,000
$500-Over Billion
$25-$30,000
$25-$47,000
* Web site information
** To participate in various groups additional fees required
*** Foundation Underwritten

7. Discussion
As a marketplace provider, why are technical standards something you invest time and money resources in supporting?
Do you, and if so how, promote the usage of technical standards to your developers and clients?
Can you give a couple of specific examples how supporting technical standards have create opportunities for your organization? (Sales? Partnerships? Decreased development time?  New product development? etc.)
In a perfect world, how would you better align technical standards and the organizations/communities who build them?
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