Joint OiW and CSU Digital Marketplace “Next Steps” Working Sessions Notes
The Agenda for OiW and the Digital Marketplace Joint Meetings are available below in PDF format:
These joint panel discussions and breakout seminar sessions held on Friday, August 10th, focused on delivering the benefits of interoperability, with the Digital Marketplace project as a specific context.
Awards for the Showcase demonstrators were presented by Jeff Merriman during a special luncheon session.
The themes of the 3 morning sessions examined near term challenges and opportunities in such areas as community support for developers and end users, technology development, and faculty and student behaviors.
Theme 1. Accelerating progress
Joint DM-OiW Session Leaders: Scott Morris (Apple), Jack Gunther (CSU Digital Marketplace)
Next Step Questions - What organizational and technical resources are necessary to grow and sustain the adoption of interoperable products and services? What resources to support users, developers, and businesses already exist? Which ones need to be created for the OiW community at large or for the Digital Marketplace in particular? What constitutes "enough" and “too much” standardization, IP protection, and operating policy? Which existing relationships, resources or organizations can be leveraged? How will new entities and capabilities be funded? What measures to develop the OiW community can be undertaken during the next 12 months?
Theme 2. Preparing for deployment
Joint DM-OiW Session Leaders: Stuart Sim (MoodleRooms), George Ward (CSU Digital Marketplace)
Next Step Questions - Which specific interoperability solutions already have been implemented? Can these solutions be applied to meet upcoming interoperability requirements for the Digital Marketplace? What operational and administrative requirements must institutions have in place in order to deploy an SOA infrastructure and interoperable components, such as the Digital Marketplace is assembling? What documentation, technical training, reference implementations, etc. does the technology community need to provide? What kind of administrative staff, localization code, staff training, etc. will adopters need? How will improvements in the availability and affordability of content, and in the effort and effectiveness of learning interactions be measured and compared by the CSU and other institutions?
Theme 3. Authoring, Exchanging, Choosing, and Using Content
Joint DM-OiW Session Leaders: Allyn Radford (Learnilities), Regan Caruthers (CSU Digital Marketplace)
Next Step Questions - What new approaches making content available and what new learning and teaching behaviors must a Digital Marketplace support? Will making authoring tools interoperable and sharing of content from commercial publishers, faculty, libraries and other repositories enable institutions to deliver better learning and teaching services to faculty and students? How have similar efforts in different industry sectors shaped the requirements for discovery, interoperability, reusability, authoring and assembly of content stored in different locations? What changes and innovations in business models, administrative policies, and pedagogical practices are being made to enable "service delivery" approaches to providing educational experiences? What reference points and indicators of trends do the OpeniWorld demonstrations provide for issues such as IP rights and usage, accessible content, affordability of content, federated infrastructures and content maintenance?
The four afternoon Breakout seminars were
1. Next interoperability challenges for DM
This seminar identified existing and potential OiW community solutions to Digital Marketplace project requirements and near term development and integration plans. The participants also discussed the impact of future OiW activities on DM features and schedule.
Seminar leader: George Ward
2. Content exchange and faculty and student
behaviors.
This session consisted of a discussion initiated by an expert panel session and included MERLOT and Digital Marketplace participants. The purpose was to inform the latter communities concerning work done by the training community on the same or related issues as the higher education community. Key points discussed were:
- Project objectives and values that have been reached;
- Progress in content reuse, improvements in educational quality and in cost reduction for learning resources
- Organizational behavior issues
- Major obstacles and ways to overcome them
The panelists were:
Renee Altier, Director, Business Development, Bedford Freeman and Worth Publishing
Larisa Enríquez Vázquez, General Coordinator, Educational Services and Network, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Paul Jesukiewicz, Deputy Director, Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (creators of the SCORM)
William O Shook, Associate Technical Fellow, Product Support, The Boeing Company
Seminar leaders: Allyn Radford and Regan Caruthers
3. Refining the “Get It Now” Use Case
This session refined a student-focused use case for acquiring content from a Resource List provided by a Digital marketplace service. The Use Case will guide identifying and defining the business issues to be resolved for provided a viable business process implementation to support the interactions involved in acquiring content from a variety of sources under a variety of acquisition paradigms.
Seminar leader: Jack Gunther
4. Growing and sustaining the OSID user and
developer Community
Participants in this wide-ranging session assessed the state of support for both commercial and institutional adoption of interoperability solutions that use the OKI OSIDs in general and the Digital Marketplace in particular. The topics discussed included requirements for community involvement in adopting and supporting the improvement and application of interoperability technology, and the support issues to be addressed in order to develop and sustain a viable network of business, academic, and technical users of the OKI OSIDs. The group also discussed trade-offs among supporting organizations to provide resources for community development.
Seminar leader: Scott Morris
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French Quarter Alley
Photographer: Richard Nowitz
New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau
Photographer: Richard Nowitz
New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau