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Implementation & Management of diverse systems to manage IT infrastructure while supporting & delivering curriculum

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District Technologies: Not Just Platforms, Not Just Infrastructure, Not Just BYOD and Never Only One Vendor

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Discussion

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Creating an Interactive Digital Classroom

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Personalized Learning Platform: Beyond the Hype
Jon Phillips - Managing Director – Strategy & Solutions, Global Education/State & Local Govt., Dell
Adam Garry - Manager, K12 Strategy, Dell
Despite significant advances in technology for learning, today’s education systems remain largely “one-size-fits-all”, ignoring the individuality of students and forcing them into artificial timelines for learning. But what does Personalized learning really mean? In this presentation, we will go beyond the marketing hype around personalization to discuss true Personalized Learning platforms that enable the creation of personal and social learning spaces to support learner-centered and personalized learning experiences empowering students to direct their own learning. We’ll discuss successful examples and definitions of personalization approaches and how standards of interoperability are critical to the success of personalization for all.

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Discussion

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Introduction to THESIS: Technology in Higher Education in Support of Innovation for Student Success
Sandra DeCastro, Vice President, Community Programs, IMS Global Learning Consortium

THESIS is a collaboration among leading colleges and universities worldwide to enable a 10-100x improvement in the adoption of innovative digital technologies by providing a framework to help institutions take the first steps towards an open academic enterprise. Additionally, THESIS provides the support to make procurements and upgrades that advance the adoption of open standards relatively easy and at no additional cost. Learn how your institution can join the THESIS collaboration to break the status quo of closed proprietary systems and to enable faculty and students to work more efficiently and effectively.

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Case study – Using LTI to Efficiently Provision Learning Resources for Competency Based Learning
Mark Weathers, CTO and Jim Cullison, Lead Software Developer, Western Governors University
Western Governors University has streamlined the way students access learning resources to make the learning experience more efficient. The Learning Resource Provisioning System was created to transparently move the student from their study plan directly into the course content. In the past this was done behind the scenes using custom developed software drivers. Now this can be accomplished with a single driver using the Basic LTI standard.

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Discussion

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Increasing Access and Success: A National Model for Collaboratively Built Blended Courses

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Discussion

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Great User Experiences Through Standards
Devlin Daley, CTO, Instructure
Learning Platforms must integrate with a wide variety of systems and services. Canvas is well known for it's seamless user experience. We'll discuss ways that we've harnessed common standards to facilitate easier and reusable integrations while maintaining focus on great user experiences.

2:00 pm

Beyond Me-portfolios: embedding personal learning tools in the assessable curriculum
Shane Sutherland, Founder and CEO, Pebble Learning
ePortfolios might more readily be described as Me-portfolios as they are most often seen, and advanced, as a means of promoting personal and/or promotional information about their owner. When used in this context, many and varied tools may be drawn upon to present a digital persona of the individual in question. However, as "eportfolio systems" have evolved so too has the pedagogical understanding of their wider affordances, resulting in many more instances of task-portfolios appearing in the curriculum. Task, or t-portfolios, are typically used to surface either a process of learning or to document learning and experience over time. T-portfolios can be sub-divided into a number of sub-categories including: Process, Project, Placement, Production and Pedagogical. As t-portfolios are normally developed as the result of a curriculum demand it follows that they need to be assessed and credentialed, often calling into play a range of quality assurance requirements and unique system requirements. This presentation will showcase a range of different task portfolios and explore the kinds of interoperability needs that arise from utilising ostensibly personal tools in an institutional context, most notably LTI, but interestingly for both production type t-portfolios and Me-portfolios the use of Common Cartridgetosupporteportfoliotransportability.

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Discussion

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Jenzabar and ConnectEDU – How LTI has evolved a partnership
Rick Tomlinson, Manager, Academic Solutions, Jenzabar and Chris Probst, CoursEval Product Manager, ConnectEDU

The Jenzabar/ConnectEDU partnership began in 2009 with custom interoperability. This session discusses the pains of the custom integration and how LTI has simplified the current and future path of the partnership. The demo will include discussions about embedding the ConnectEDU application within the Jenzabar portal and learning management system, as well as the handling of 3rd party cookies through the LTI integration.

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Fostering an Open Learning Ecosystem
Jon Mott, Chief Learning Officer, and Derek Hamner, CEO

Today’s web technologies provide the transparency and flexibility to create a fully open learning ecosystem. However, we won’t realize this potential if we allow only consumer and LMS app stores to shape the landscape. Instead, we must support initiatives that put learners and institutions in the drivers’ seat. We can do this by continuing to promote:

• Adoption of learning tools and learning content through standards-based marketplaces
• Instructor search and consumption of learning content and tools within online course environments
• Institutional management of learning and content tools
• Alternative distribution channels for tool and content providers
• Easy and effective institutional access to actionable data on use of digital resources

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Discussion

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What is the difference between an accessibility standard and good accessibility?
Thomas Hoffman, Measured Progress

Adopting a standard like APIP is the first step in making good, accessible assessments. This session will discuss how the standard allows for holding information, but smart people still need to make good decisions to bring accessible assessments to students. The session will also address questions like: What decisions need to be made towards producing accessible content and great delivery systems? How does APIP work alongside other web accessibility standards?

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Taking it with You: Technology-Enhanced Items and Portability
Jason Craft, Pearson
Next-generation online assessments need to support complex interactions and responses, and technology-enhanced items are in demand. However, next-generation items also need to be portable -- capable of traveling with fidelity from delivery system to delivery system. To meet these needs, the QTI custom interaction specification has recently been enriched with best practice recommendations for building HTML5 and JavaScript-based custom interactions. These interactions follow some standard patterns for description and configuration, and communicate with delivery systems via a defined interface. In this presentation, we will walk through some of Pearson's early development around these new best practices, and will discuss some additional questions and considerations to keep in mind when planning for portability of technology-enhanced items.

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Discussion

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Utiliting tablets for Assessment
Dale Cornelius,Project Manager, Online Testing and Science,Department of Accountability, Assessment, and Data Systems, Maryland State Department of Education
Maryland recently completed its first study on the use of tablets for assessments. This presentation provides an overview of opportunities and challenges facing schools as they prepare to utilize tablets for Next Generation assessments.

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When Will the APIP Stars Align?
Cheryl Alcaya, Supervisor, Minnesota Department of Education
State K-12 assessment systems are large, cumbersome and resistant to change. The Race to the Top assessment consortia represent an opportunity to introduce innovation, interoperability and increased accessibility in our assessment systems. How do states unaffiliated with a consortium implement APIP and keep up with the many changes coming to large-scale assessment?

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Discussion

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Building Digital Courses with EPUB and LTI
Rick Johnson, Chief Technology Officer, VitalSource Technologies
There is a print to digital content shift happening in higher education, and e-textbooks are gaining ground fast - educators and students are demanding enhanced learning experiences. EPUB is transforming e-textbooks from the traditional "book under glass" format into a truly dynamic reading experience including assessments, simulations, and gradebook integration. As you begin to develop rich interactive learning experiences, you should take advantage of the EPUB and LTI standards and the flexibility and benefits these standards offer. In this session, Rick Johnson, Chief Technology Officer of Vital Source Technologies, will provide an EPUB and LTI demo that shows you how to re-invent your content to get there easier and faster, while differentiating yourself in the market.

2:00 pm

Engagement Analytics: Using Data to Lower Costs, Increase Retention, Improve Learning
Bryan Spaulding, SVP of Technology and Business Operations, CourseSmart
Is there a correlation between students' engagement level with digital course materials and improved learning outcomes? CourseSmart seeks to answer this question with the launch of a beta version of the country's first higher education analytics solution announced in November 2012. Through demonstration and discussion of institutional beta programs, the audience will learn about CourseSmart Analytics, a solution designed to provide additional tools to instructors and administrators seeking to improve learning outcomes, aid student retention and graduation rates, and provide university administrators with tools to make better decisions related to large-scale adoption of digital course materials. Central to this discussion will be will be an overview of The CourseSmart Engagement Index, a proprietary algorithm which combines standard eTextbook usage data such as page views, time spent in a book, use of notes and highlights, and weights each based on how much they contribute to the student's engagement with the material. This material is presented in an easy-to-use dashboard, which can help instructors identify “at risk” students and provide them with guidance to help them stay on-track, so they graduate on time and on-budget. Preliminary insights from CourseSmart's beta pilot schools will be shared, as will progress towards widespread deployment in 2013.

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Discussion

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Addressing Accessibility in Your eText Initiative
Steve Scott, Chief Technology Officer - Courseload

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Supporting Behaviour Units within the Physical Schools with Virtual Education that Works

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Bookshare: An Accessible Online Library for Education Integrates IMS Access For All
Gerardo Capiel, VP of Engineering, Benetech
Bookshare is the world’s largest online accessible library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. Through its technology initiatives and partnerships, Bookshare seeks to raise the floor on accessibility issues so that individuals with print disabilities have the same ease of access to print materials as people without disabilities. In 2007 and 2012, Bookshare received two five-year awards from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), to provide free access for all U.S. students with a qualified print disability. The Bookshare library now has over 180,000 books and serves more than 250,000 members.

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Discussion

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Solid Data Security Drives Education Transformation in Arizona
Mark Masterson, Chief Information Officer, Arizona Department of Education
Join Mark Masterson, Chief Information Officer of the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) as he presents Arizona’s groundbreaking statewide education data driven decision system. Designed to deliver increased teaching and learning outcomes by creating centralized systems with decentralized execution, once complete the integrated data system will enable local education agencies to opt-in to ADE services and the underlying secure, integrated data. Masterson will share the details surrounding the massive undertaking including the steep learning curve, progress to date, valuable lessons learned and the importance of establishing IMS interoperability standards for future success.

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Implementing EdTech to Enable Adaptive, Effective and Personalized Learning Environments
Join Nathan Koering, Global Ecosystem Development for Education at SMART Technologies
Allen Brooks, teacher, mentor and edtech implementation veteran from San Marcos USD

How can the decisions not just about what you implement, but how you implement effect the success of a learning environment? How can the ecosystem you connect to for support, professional development, pedagogy, and community build sustainable learning environments in an evolving educational world? This discussion will focus on the implementations of tools, support and professional development. It will focus on how you can enable your classrooms to be houses of innovation and learning.

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Discussion

9:00 am

Systemic Approach to Blended and Online Learning
Trina Trimm Angelone, Founder and COO, VSCHOOLZ, Inc.
Technology training is not enough for administration, staff and faculty who are new to or transitioning into the online learning environment. Training is a necessity in the areas of building and using digital content, instructional design, and communication and collaboration tools used in this digital age. Online education is expanding at an expeditious rate. Whether an institution is transitioning to a blended learning environment, starting an online program, or looking for ways to improve learning outcomes in their present online environment, the instructor is the primary factor leading to student success. Trimm will discuss and present on how she has successfully provided training to education students, faculty and administrators in a digital learning environment at both K-12 and collegiate levels. She will discuss the recently implemented Virtual Teacher Academy program where instructors at different levels are able to earn college credit and their CEU’s Trmm’s focus is to delve into what kinds of training is needed to teach in an online learning environment; how faculty can provide different tiers of professional development; and how it can be ensured that faculty have acquired skills that will enable them to effectively teach online..

9:30 am

LoudCloud: The Next Generation Intelligent Learning Platform Powered by Behavioral Analytics

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Open Discussion

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Break

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Disruptive Data: How Educational Analytics Will Transform Teaching, Learning and Organizational Performance
Sean Devine, CEO, CourseSmart
Nearly every day we hear accounts of America's competitiveness crisis, or our innovation shortfall. According to whitehouse.gov, in higher education the U.S. has been outpaced internationally: we rank ninth in the world in the proportion of young adults enrolled in college, we've fallen to 16th in the world in the share of degrees awarded to adults 25-34, and we suffer from a college attainment gap. Analytics represents the intersection of technology and education innovation, and it holds great promise as a means to transform teaching, learning and institutional accountability, all of which are vital to help us regain our competitive edge. No wonder ECAR cites educational analytics as “the most dramatic factor shaping the future of Higher Education. Through demonstration, explanation and specific use cases, the audience will learn how CourseSmart Analytics, the industry's first analytics solution for Higher Education, is being beta tested in a variety of for-profit and traditional schools. Trends, data and anecdotal evidence will validate how analytics can control costs, increase retention and improve learning outcomes for the benefit of students, instructors, institutions and publishers, as well as the global education community.

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Disruptive Learning Models Discussion

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Lunch

9:00 am

Connecting the Classroom

9:30 am

Next-Generation Analytics Architecture
Al Essa, Desire2Learn
Big Data and Analytics is experiencing explosive growth in every industry, including education. The talk will survey and demonstrate promising next-generation Analytics technologies, methodologies, and architecture from the point of view of scalability and affordability. Particular emphasis will be given to Analytics on the Cloud, Advanced Visualizations, and Interactive Data Exploration of large datasets.

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Discussion

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Pearson has built responsive design-based courseware with an assessment component that captures and displays "small data" for the learner and the instructor. The responsive designed courseware also enables slick mobile learning experience for the learner. The incorporation of a self-assessment generates learning data that assists the learner with their mastery of content. Both the learner and the instructor can utilize the data to better understand learning progress. LTI plays a key role in making our content and "small data" LMS independent.

11:30 am

Interoperability in the Real World: A K12 Story
Douglas Gastich, Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, Learning.com

As the promise of interoperability is realized, what opportunities for innovation emerge? We'll look at how Learning.com has approached key integrations and used standards such as LTI to help teachers make sense of the 'move to digital'. In particular, we'll see how Learning.com and the state of Indiana joined forces on an LTI integration to provide instructional materials options for all Indiana K12 educators.

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Discussion

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Lunch

9:00 am

How Assessment Results Influence Instruction
Devin Loftis,Director of Engineering, McGraw-Hill CTB
This presentation will show how McGraw-Hill CTB is looking to use standards based assessment results to guide instructional activities for our students. The key principle supporting this ability is instructional and assessment content aligned to standards with appropriate meta-data tagging. Additionally, the content must be present in an way that independent systems may invoke / reference content in an interoperable / standards based manner.

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WIDA Consortium:Technology-enhanced assessments for English language learners
Carsten Wilmes Ph.D.,Director, Assessment, WIDA Consortium
Since its inception 10 years ago, the 31-state WIDA consortium has supported the needs of English language learners through standards, research, professional development and assessments. This presentation highlights WIDA's work on the ASSETS project to use technology to enhance and augment the existing assessment system.

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Discussion

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QTI 2.1 in Use
Wilbert Kraan, Assistant Director, JISC-CETIS
See demos of UniQurate and QTIWorks,and learn the role of LTI in enabling the use of QTIWorks from within an LMS, and the detailed analytics data that QTIWorks can provide of an interaction.

11:30 am

Converting Legacy Items Using QTI 2.1 while Supporting Development of Technology Enhanced Items
Justin Marks, Sr. Product Manager for the Standards and Content Integration Platform, NWEA
NWEA has been using QTI 2.0 for several years in one of its products and is currently adopting QTI 2.1 companywide. We are in the process of using QTI 2.1 to transmit assessment questions from legacy systems and external item vendors (both classic and technology enhanced items) to NWEA’s new content management platform and NWEA’s assessment platform. As we moved through this process, there have been challenges and successes. We will be discussing how we handled issues such as: converting legacy item types that will and will not fit the QTI 2.1 spec, importing QTI 2.1 items from external vendors, and the displaying, editing, and publishing of QTI 2.1 items.

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Discussion

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Lunch

9:00 am

Content Strategy – The Integrated Approach to Enrich Your Content
John Prabhu,VP Solutions Architect,SPi Global
The Publishing Industry has evolved with various models and standards: Common Cartridge for Course Cartridge, QTI for Assessments, EPUB for eBook, and HTML5 for interoperability. SPi Global is working with Publishers and Aggregators implementing a unified content architecture and best practices thereby eTextbook, Courses, Assessments, eBook and Interactive materials are dynamically and seamlessly provided to individual learners. Attendees to this session will learn how to structure and maximize the value of content using these standards to enable an integrated approach.

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Integrating Digital Creation, Curation, and Learning Through Web 2.0 ePortfolios
Regan Caruthers, Vice President of Sales, Pathbrite
Rather than passively receiving information in class, students are using Web 2.0 ePortfolios to become both content creators and curators while building relationships with peers in an online environment. In an initial pilot study at the University of Texas at Tyler, students in two disciplines, Teacher Education and Human Resource Development, used the ePortfolio platform Pathbrite (pathbrite.com) as a means to construct meaningful content in addition to reflecting upon and sharing evidence of their learning with their instructor and colleagues. Pathbrite allowed students to connect their ePortfolio with other social media technologies while making connections to real-world experiences. By providing students a forum for reflection and discussion, social presence was strengthened which is part of Garrison, Anderson and Archer’s (2000) Community of Inquiry (COI) Framework. The purpose of the research was to explore perceptions of students towards their use of ePortfolios in order to have a better understanding of how experiential and evidence-based learning can be incorporated into teaching. This session will provide participants with an ePortfolio demonstration using the Pathbrite platform. Project stories, lesson plans, and artifacts from across both disciplines will be shared. Furthermore, participants will be given time to ask questions and discuss the uses of electronic portfolios.

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Discussion

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Break

11:00 am

Hitchhikers Guide to the Mobile Universe: An Educator's Journey
Dr. Rick Lumadue, Dr. Keith Sisson, Dr. Rusty Waller, Texas A & M Commerce
This presentation will focus on the effective use of Mobile Apps for teaching and learning in educational contexts. Hands on demonstrations of some of the most innovative uses of these educational Apps will be presented. A demonstration of integrating an iTunes U developed course will be highlighted. This will be an interactive session to allow for questions and feedback.

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Personalized Learning Experiences
Dan Silverberg, SVP, Marketing, Cengage Learning
Learn how Cengage creates personalized pearning experiences through technology by engaging students to produce better outcomes.

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Discussion

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Lunch