How Standards Impact Software Business Decisions How Do we deal with all these demands? Steve Curtis - Kimono Michelle Elia - CPSI George Gatsis - Follett Robert Iskander - West © Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community

Standards Landscape Players Common Core College/Career Readiness CEDS- Ed-Fi - A4L/SIF- CEDS- Ed-Fi - A4L/SIF A4L/SIF- IMS Global Would Ed-Fi be able to claim Data Exchange Protocols? IMS Global A4L/SIF - IMS Global- PESC A4L/SIF

SDO and Projects SDO / Project General Description Access 4 Learning (A4L) / SIF The A4L Community, previously the SIF Association, is collaboration of 3,000 schools, districts, local authorities, states, US and International Ministries of Education, and suppliers addressing learning information management and usage in a standard way regardless of the platform hosting. Common Core State Standards Council of Chief State Superintendent Organization (CCSSO) and National Governor’s Association (NGA) academic standards for mathematics and English language arts/literacy Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collaborative effort to “develop voluntary, common data standards for a key set of education data elements to streamline the exchange, comparison, and understanding of P-20W data”. Ed-Fi Alliance Underwritten by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Ed-Fi is “A community-driven Data Standard and Implementation Suite, an efficient, proven and easy-to-use array of tools that turn data into something schools can use”. IMS Global IMS Global is a collaborative inventing the future of educational and learning technology enabling a plug & play architecture and ecosystem that provides a foundation on which innovative products are rapidly deployed and work together. Post-Secondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) PESC’s mission includes “enabling the portability of student data across the education” by “driving the open, transparent, community-based, collaborative development and alignment of data across disparate systems and across sectors.”

Standards – “Which for What”? Functionality IMS Global PESC Ed-FI Alliance SIF Specs Application Rostering ✔ HS Student Transcripts Student Records Exchange (course) Data Storage Pk12 Admin/Operation Systems Student State ID Management State Reporting / Data Collection Management Assessment Delivery and Results Digital Resource Exchange Learning Analytics Personalized Learning Assignment

Specification Usage Usage Levels IMS Specs PESC EdFi SIF Used at K12 school level ✔ Used at K12 district level Used at K12 regional service/local authority level Used at K12 state/territory level Used at K12 federal levels Used in Higher Education

SDO Membership Costs Comparison* IMS Global** PESC Ed-Fi Alliance*** A4L Community Schools $1,500-$5,000 $250-$2,500 NA $300-450 States $5,000 $10,000 $2750 Universities $5-$15,000 $1650 Vendors $0-$5 mil $1-$7,500 $2-$4,400 $5-25 mil $15-$25,000 $7.5-$15,000 $6,600 $25-$100 mil $55,000 $15,000 $9-$13,000 $100-$500 mil $25,000 $18-$25,000 $500-Over Billion $25-$30,000 $25-$47,000 * Web site information ** To participate in various groups additional fees required *** Foundation Underwritten

Discussion As a marketplace provider, why are technical standards something you invest time and money resources in supporting? Do you, and if so how, promote the usage of technical standards to your developers and clients? Can you give a couple of specific examples how supporting technical standards have create opportunities for your organization? (Sales? Partnerships? Decreased development time?  New product development? etc.) In a perfect world, how would you better align technical standards and the organizations/communities who build them? © Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community