Re: Welcome & Introductions

Hello, My name is Jim Goodell. I lead standards development for the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) in the U.S. [1] and work with many other standards initiatives. I get my paycheck from Quality Information Partners [2] which has supported several national data standards initiatives. CEDS defines  data vocabulary for education at all levels, early learning, primary-secondary, higher education and adult/workforce, and is used by practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, and technical communities as a common reference for understanding education data.

I serve on the LRMI task group of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative [3], the Credential Transparency Initiative (CTI) technical workgroup [4], and hang out in various other communities such as xAPI [5] and Badge Alliance [6], and attend meetings of standards organizations such as IMS Global, SIFA/A4L, and PESC in an ongoing effort to keep CEDS in sync as a kind of Rosetta Stone for education data vocabulary.

Prior to QIP I led development of education data warehouse and school performance management systems, and projects such as the Teacher Student Data Link [7] at the Center for Educational Leadership and Technology (CELT). I’ve been thinking and writing about technology for student-centered competency-based education for over a decade, more recently thinking about how emerging models of practice are changing needs for data linked to a “course”. 

[1] https://ceds.ed.gov 
[2] http://www.qi-partners.com 
[3] http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/AB-Comm/ed/LRMI/TG
[4] http://www.credentialtransparencyinitiative.org/ 
[5] http://adlnet.gov/ 
[6] http://www.badgealliance.org/ 
[7] http://tsdl.org/ 

---Jim Goodell@jgoodell2

      From: "Haag, Jason" <jhaag75@gmail.com>
 To: Robby Robson <robby.robson@eduworks.com> 
Cc: public-schema-course-extend@w3.org
 Sent: Monday, January 4, 2016 11:41 AM
 Subject: Re: Welcome & Introductions
   
Hi Everyone! I'll piggyback off of Robby's introduction since he's
mostly responsible for piquing my interest in this area, going as
far back as IEEE LOM. I'm a research and technology analyst with the
Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL), creators of SCORM.
I've been involved in the learning technology space since
circa 2001. I won't bore you any further with my background in this reply. If
you're interested, go to http://linkedin.com/in/jasonhaag.

I'm really interested in this project and participating because it
seems to parlay nicely with some other work I'm involved with:

1) the competency project Robby mentioned
2) a working group focused on leveraging semantic web technologies for
the Experience API (xAPI),
https://www.w3.org/community/xapivocabulary/

Looking forward to participating! Thank you.

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On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Robby Robson <robby.robson@eduworks.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone, and happy New Year.
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> By way of introduction, I’m Robby Robson, long-time competency standards and
> outcomes-based education wrangler, PI on a new project developing an open
> source system for managing competency models (aka frameworks) and
> competency-based learner profiles, and participant in several related
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> My other day job is CEO of Eduworks.
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> I completely support Phil chairing this group.
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