RE: Welcome & Introductions

Hi Everyone, and also happy New Year

I’m based in the UK.  I’m a freelance consultant, specialising in courses information, primarily in marketing information and primarily in UK Higher Education.  Working closely with Jisc, Cetis and UK HE providers, we have developed the XCRI-CAP standard (eXchanging Course Related Information – Course Advertising Profile), an information model for the exchange of course advertising material in UK Higher and Further Education (see xcri.co.uk).  This is now starting to be used for postgraduate data exchange nationally in the UK.

I’ve also worked on standards for competence, for graduate achievement and subject classification.  I’m particularly interested in getting universities in the UK to use these things in practical implementations.

Alan Paull

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From: Poltrack, Jonathan [mailto:jonathan.poltrack.ctr@adlnet.gov]
Sent: 05 January 2016 12:59
To: public-schema-course-extend@w3.org
Subject: Re: Welcome & Introductions

Hi all and Happy New Year

Like Jason Haag (previously introduced), I work for the DoD Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative.  I've worked on ADL on and off since 1999 and contributed to many of the specs and standards that make up SCORM.  I've also created several examples and reference implementations of the spec.

At ADL, we are interested in a new set of specs and standards, used together to modernize legacy e-learning environments, but also to enable new capabilities not previously possible.  I am interested in this project because it supports our competency efforts at ADL.  More information about me is available at LinkedIn - https://www..linkedin.com/in/jonathan-poltrack-3218725<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-poltrack-3218725>

-Jono

Jonathan Poltrack
Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)
jonathan.poltrack.ctr@adlnet.gov<mailto:jonathan.poltrack.ctr@adlnet.gov>
Twitter: @adljono<https://twitter.com/search?q=%40adljono&src=typd>

Jonathan Poltrack
Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)
jonathan.poltrack.ctr@adlnet.gov<mailto:jonathan.poltrack.ctr@adlnet.gov>
Twitter: @adljono<https://twitter.com/search?q=%40adljono&src=typd>

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Jim Goodell <jgoodell2@yahoo.com<mailto:jgoodell2@yahoo.com>> wrote:
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/


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From: "Haag, Jason" <jhaag75@gmail.com<mailto:jhaag75@gmail.com>>
To: Robby Robson <robby.robson@eduworks.com<mailto:robby.robson@eduworks.com>>
Cc: public-schema-course-extend@w3.org<mailto: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<mailto: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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