1EdTech

Community

1EdTech is a member-based nonprofit community partnership of educational providers, state and national departments of education, and education technology suppliers working to accelerate open standards and innovation from learning environments to digital curriculum to assessment to insightful data to digital credentials. Formerly known as IMS Global Learning Consortium, 1EdTech is funded through memberships. To learn more, see 1edtech.org

Standards

1EdTech establishes standards that help ensure a trusted digital ecosystem. Its community-developed and maintained standards help various applications integrate — or work with one another — and then transport student data between those applications as they are used in the teaching and learning environment. 1EdTech standards also help to move and integrate data into an organization’s operational data infrastructure and or data warehousing and reporting infrastructure. Each 1EdTech standard is designed to help facilitate a step in the transportation and integration processes a given organization might need to connect the many applications it uses, from the classroom to the administrative office.

An example might be exchanging student roster information with various other learning applications, such as an assessment system, a learning management system, or any other tool that might collect or need student information. In this use case, 1EdTech standards help to provide rostering or enrollment data from a system of record, without human intervention, out to other various applications within the educational organization’s technical ecosystem, thus preserving the integrity of those data for real-time use across education applications as well as internal organization data infrastructure.

1EdTech focuses on data transport and encompasses several standards:

• OneRoster®: Enables the exchange and synchronization of roster information and grades, focusing on people, memberships, courses, and outcomes. It also enables enrollment/rostering of authorized users (students, teachers, staff) into systems and returns grades to the organization’s system of record, such as an SIS. Can be certified by 1EdTech for compliance. Designed exclusively for teaching and learning. Has been mapped to CEDS. See Student Learning Data Model.

• Caliper Analytics®: Consistently captures and presents measures of learning activity and defines a common language for labeling learning data, with a standard way of measuring learning activities and effectiveness. This enables designers and providers of curricula to measure, compare, and improve quality. Caliper records user activity in teaching and learning systems in a consistent form organized by event types for product usage analysis across the ecosystem. Can be certified by 1EdTech for compliance. Designed exclusively for teaching and learning. CASE alignments are reflected in Caliper events.

• Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange® (CASE®): Exchanges and manages information about learning standards and competencies in a consistent and referenceable way, including machine-readable statements of what the learner will know and be able to do, explanations of relationships between standard sets and among individual standards or courses where applicable, and guides listing specific criteria for grading or scoring academic papers, projects, or tests. CASE aligns and associates instructional resources, assessments, and work products to state, local, and organizational standards. Can be certified by 1EdTech for compliance. CASE can be incorporated in OneRoster, Caliper, LTI, QTI, CLR, and Open Badges.

• Question and Test Interoperability® (QTI®): Enables the exchange of item, test, and results data between authoring tools, item banks, test construction tools, learning systems, and assessment delivery systems, including accessible assessments. Offers summative and high-stakes tests at scale with automated granular results reporting. Enables the sharing of item banks. Can be certified by 1EdTech for compliance. CASE alignments are reflected in QTI items.

• Comprehensive Learner Record Standard™ (CLR): A digitally verifiable learner record applicable to education and workforce learning. The 1EdTech CLR Standard supports competency-based education, cocurricular, and extracurricular skills and achievements, employer-based learning, and other learning experiences in a verifiable, portable, and interoperable format. It helps maintain a longitudinal and detailed record of learning and achievement, including evidence, work products, and open badges. Can be certified by 1EdTech for compliance. The new version is a type of W3C Verifiable Credential. CASE alignments can make associations outside of the CLR and inside of the CLR to describe an education pathway.

• Open Badges: Captures learner achievements that are verifiable, portable, and interoperable through Open Badges and, in the future, learning pathways and Blockchain extensions. Recognizes academic, cocurricular, and extracurricular achievements with a visual token embedded with relevant data. Can be certified by 1EdTech for compliance. The new version is a type of W3C Verifiable Credential. CASE alignments can be reflected in an Open Badge.

• LTI: Integrating rich learning applications (often remotely hosted and provided through third-party services) with platforms such as learning management systems, portals, learning object repositories, or other educational environments. Allows online users to securely navigate among systems with data exchange relevant to the task being performed. Can be certified by 1EdTech for compliance. Performs functions of SAML but with teaching and learning context. LTI, Caliper, and CASE combine to tell the story of users' activities, app usage, resource usage, and outcomes.

• Data Privacy: 1EdTech vets educational applications to ensure that minimum standards of privacy and security are met, and provides assurance that the information gathered by these educational applications is being used responsibly, thereby certifying that institutions are using TrustEd Apps. This support helps users understand how a product's privacy policy operates across 24 topics of privacy protection. 1EdTech also exercises objective criteria vetting with written supplier feedback and evidence. Data privacy is engineered into 1EdTech standards through the process of vetting privacy policies.

Learn More

Useful links for learning more about 1EdTech:

• 1EdTech Home Page
• 1EdTech Membership information
• 1EdTech Trusted Apps information
• 1EdTech Certifications information
• 1EdTech standards information