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Learning Impact 2007 and the Summit on
Global Learning Industry Challenges will be held in Vancouver, British
Columbia the 16th - 19th April 2007 at the Westin Bayshore.
Learning Impact 2007 (formerly alt-i-lab) is
IMS Global Learning Consortium's annual conference that brings together
creators, vendors, users, and buyers of learning technology to evaluate
demonstrations, exchange technology, and participate in working
sessions focused on real-world interoperability, strategies maximizing
the impact of learning technology, and critical examination of state of
the art technology.
The Summit on Global Learning Industry
Challenges is a gathering of industry leaders to introduce and debate
ideas on on issues impacting the growth of learning worldwide. This is
a unique and highly direct conversation for the purpose of illuminating
the key business challenges facing the learning industry. The Summit is
facilitated by a focused set of highly interactive panel sessions with
audience participation.
Progress in Open Source, Open Content, and Open Services
Challenge Question:What are the successes of open initiatives in
education
so far and what is coming next? What business models are working and
why? What is the practical role that Service Oriented Architectures
will play, if any?
Program Track Leader: Stuart Sim, CTO and Chief Architect,
MoodleRooms
Presentations by:
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9:45 - 10:15
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Welcome and Overview
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Stuart Sim, CTO and Chief Architect,
Moodlerooms |
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10:15 - 10:35
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IBM and Open Source
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TBD
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11:00 - 11:20
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The e-Framework: Putting a Service Oriented
Approach into Practice
The e-Framework is an initiative by the U.K's Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC), Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training
(DEST) and partners to produce an evolving and sustainable, open standards
based, service oriented technical framework to support the education and
research communities.
The e-Framework supports a service oriented approach to developing and
delivering education, research and management information systems. Such an
approach maximises the flexibility and cost effectiveness with which systems can
be deployed, both in an institutional context, nationally and internationally.
The e-Framework allows the community to document its requirements and
processes in a coherent way, and to use these to derive a set of interoperable
network services that conform to appropriate open standards. By documenting
requirements, processes, services, protocol bindings and standards in the form
of 'service usage models' members of the community are better able to
collaborate on the development of service components that meet their needs (both
within the community and with commercial and other international partners).
This presentation will outline some of the practical ways in which community
engagement is being developed to support and populate the framework and the
challenges that the community face in terms of creating a sustainable and
flexible resource base.
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Sheila MacNeil, Research Fellow, Centre for
Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement, University of
Strathclyde
and Dr. Lyle Winton, Consultant,
e-Framework, DEST
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11:25 - 11:45
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The Business of 'Open'
Open Source and Open Standards are often marketed on the potential of huge cost
savings to the enterprise but more often than not, the true business case
outlining the benefits and risk to adopting 'open' are overlooked. This
presentation will outline the real world case for open services and describe the
costs, pitfalls and investments required to reap the longer term benefits.
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Stuart Sim, CTO and Chief Architect,
MoodleRooms
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13:20 - 13:40
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The Learning Gateway
As educators consider the role of technology in 21st century learning, and
debate rages over topics such as; open source versus commercial software or
which standards are most widely supported, a simple question is increasingly
overlooked... What does this do for the student?
Sometimes the latest and greatest technical innovations lose sight of the
most compelling reason why an educational institution would invest in them; to
improve the business of teaching and learning! Services Oriented Architecture
(or SOA to add one more acronym to the catalogue!) reverses this trend. In this
session we'll define in straight forward terms what is meant by the phrase;
Services Oriented Architecture and through example, explore its practical
application in the improvement of student learning outcomes. As the world leader
in SOA tools and technologies, Microsoft is ideally situated to discuss its role
in enabling this powerful new medium through products such as; SharePoint Portal
Server, the Learning Gateway and through support of community source and partner
led initiatives.
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Cliff Lloyd, Program Manager,
Microsoft
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13:45 - 14:05
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Sakai and Open Source
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Charles Severance, University of Michigan,
Sakai
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14:10 - 14:30
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‘What you do with what you've
got’
First generation OERs were all about taking what we as institutions produce for
our regular students and sharing them with the world. Through openlearn we have
been sharing newly-transformed materials that were originally produced for ODL
students with the wider learning community alongside an innovative set of
communication and sense-making tools. But was does this mean for what we and
other institutions do for our regular students? How do OERs impact on
main-business course production and delivery? What does learning look like in an
OER world?
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Stephen J.Bradley, Director, The Open
University UK
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15:00 - 15:20
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COSL
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Brandon Muramatsu, Project Director, Utah
State University
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15:45 - 17:00
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Discussion / Panel Session
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