1. The Global Learning Resource Connection Supporting the Next Generation of Education The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) A JES & Co. Program Diny Golder Executive Director JES & Co. DinyG@JESandCo.org

2. An Application Profile for Mapping Educational Resources to Curriculum Diny Golder, JES & Co., USA

3. Content Standards What’s an ASN Achievement Standard? Curriculum Standards Benchmarks Indicators Curriculum Frameworks Frameworks Performance Standards Assessments Performance Indicators Curriculum An achievement standard is an assertion by someone in authority of what someone (a teacher or a learner) in an educational context should do or know. ASN is a data model for these assertions, their source document and the relationships among assertions and documents.

4. The problem… Large repositories of educational resources are being created Jurisdictional controls of education include various forms of mandated curriculum e.g., national curricula (Achievement Standards) Metadata mapping educational resources to curriculum supports teaching, learning and accountability

5. Machine- addressable form Semantic-web amenable Curriculum Repository

6. ASN Goals… Create an international repository of curriculum in machine addressable form that -Are accurate digital representations of curriculum and their component statements (semantic units); -Are consistent in form; and -Are modeled in RDF and amenable to the -Semantic Web Extensible framework to support evolving uses Open access

7. Process and result… Gathered all current and historical curriculum documents in the United States (In the USA, 761 documents have been decomposed (atomized) into “statements” derived from document structure and content in excess of 350,000 learning objective statements) All documents and statements assigned URI and are dereferencable over the Web

8. Core Functions Support

9. Terminology Align means that two or more curriculum statements are similar. Correlation means that a learning resources is associated (searchable) by a curriculum statement.

10. Alignment Direct Mappings – 1-to-many Inferred (indirect) mappings – Many-to-1 Experimentation in the USA Automatic machine processing), defined intermediary statements (uber /master statements); and controlled vocabulary

13. MODELING RESOURCES AND CURRICULUM STATEMENTS RDF Modeling

14. Document Assertion Statement Assertion Assertion Assertion AssertionAssertionAssertion AssertionAssertionAssertion Describe & Relate

15. Networked computers and distributed resources need globally unique identifiers (URI) for purposes of establishing unambiguous “identity” (unique local or project identifiers won’t do!) Given a Web-resolvable URI, an application can retrieve the appropriate text for human consumption. Satisfying Machine needs… Same!! “Analyze and solve multistep problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using an organized approach, and verify …” http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S1023B7C

16. CURRICULUM TAXON PATH Contextualizing Statements

17. Global Interoperability Open source achievement standards data with globally unique, Web-resolvable identifiers (URI) support: – Efficient integration of data from disparate resource providers – Resource sharing and linking related resources

18. Functions of the ASN Editor (with 2 example fields) Written to/Read from Data Store Navigation View Portable RDF/XML files - Student understands mathematics + Student knows addition + Student knows division + Student knows multiplication - Student knows how to multiply with double digits - Student knows how to multiply with triple digits

19. Beyond authoritative text… Description Author Comment Concept Term Description Education Level Jurisdiction Local Subject Publisher Skill Embodied Spatial (aspects) Statement Label Statement Notation Subject Temporal (aspects) Relationships Align To Align From Cross Subject Reference Derived From Has Child Is Child Of Source … Administration Authority Status Change Note Created Date Copyrighted Date Valid Editorial Note History Note Indexing Status License Publication Status Rights Rights Holder

20. Refining Statements & Adding New Relationships

21. National Curriculum* Digital Curriculum Resource Research Pathways (Individual & Program) Professional Development Resources Reporting Student Portfolios Assessment Resources Research Student Portfolios Reporting Professional Development Resources Pathways (Individual & Program) VELS Level 3 Mathematics Number At Level 3, students use place value (as the idea that ‘ten of these is one of those’) to determine the size and order of whole numbers to tens of thousands, and decimals to hundredths. Learning Area: Mathematics Year Level: 3 Strand: Number … http://purl.org/Dta46f649 VELS Level 3 Mathematics Number At Level 3, students use place value (as the idea that ‘ten of these is one of those’) to determine the size and order of whole numbers to tens of thousands, and decimals to hundredths. Learning Area: Mathematics Year Level: 3 Strand: Number … http://purl.org/Dta46f649 Digital Resource Assessment Resources *This slide was created in a working session with state and federal education leaders in May 2009, Melbourne, Australia, while consulting to them regarding Australia’s National standards efforts.

22. National curriculum* Digital Curriculum Resource Research Pathways (Individual & Program) Professional Developmen t Resources Reporting Student Portfolios Assessment Resources Research Student Portfolios Reporting Professional Development Resources Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Dta46f649 Digital Curriculum Resource Assessment Resources Digital Curriculum Resource Research Pathways (Individual & Program) Professional Developmen t Resources Reporting Student Portfolios Assessment Resources Research Student Portfolios Reporting Professional Development Resources Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Zta46f682 Digital Curriculum Resource Assessment Resources State/Territory curriculum *This slide was created in a working session with state and federal education leaders in May 2009, Melbourne, Australia, while consulting to them regarding Australia’s National standards efforts.

23. Current Efforts USA UK AU

24. 1 st : export your data as a set of relations From the presentation of Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead given at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA, USA2009 Semantic Technology Conference

25. 2 nd : export your second set of data From the presentation of Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead given at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA, USA2009 Semantic Technology Conference

26. 3 rd : start merging your data From the presentation of Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead given at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA, USA2009 Semantic Technology Conference

27. Connecting Resources through Describing and Relating From the presentation of Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead given at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA, USA2009 Semantic Technology Conference Look Familiar?

28. National curriculum* Digital Curriculum Resource Research Pathways (Individual & Program) Professional Developmen t Resources Reporting Student Portfolios Assessment Resources Research Student Portfolios Reporting Professional Development Resources Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Dta46f649 Digital Curriculum Resource Assessment Resources Digital Curriculum Resource Research Pathways (Individual & Program) Professional Developmen t Resources Reporting Student Portfolios Assessment Resources Research Student Portfolios Reporting Professional Development Resources Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Zta46f682 Digital Curriculum Resource Assessment Resources State/Territory curriculum *This slide was created in a working session with state and federal education leaders in May 2009, Melbourne, Australia, while consulting to them regarding Australia’s National standards efforts.

30. Tools & Services Batch downloads of curriculum Mechanism to dereference an ASN URI Web Services for interactions with the repository by metadata generation tools Searching & browsing interfaces to the curriculum

31. An ASN statement is resolvable over the web. Try IT !!! Simply paste the unique URI in a browser, and the RDF/XLM will be returned, showing descriptions and relationships.

34. Statement versioning – Deviation from current document-centric focus to evolving statements Vocabulary extensions – Strand map (navigable paths) extensions & authoring environment Enhanced array of properties – Continuous discovery of new assertions to be made Work in Progress

35. The Achievement Standards Network is part of the Global Learning Resource Connection ; collaborating to connect the dots between education systems that support teaching and learning.

36. Working together for a global education.

37. Questions ? Diny Golder Executive Director JES & Co. DinyG@JESandCo.org Organisations around the world are connecting.