Digital Marketplace Project:Update for PTSC

Academic Technology ServicesCalifornia State University

October 18, 2006

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2005-2015:The Pyramid Continues

Academic Technology Initiatives

•Supporting Student Success

•Foundation Skills

•Digital Learning Materials

•Support for Research

•Professional Development

•Academic Development Technology Teams

•Academic Technology Shared Services

•Digital Marketplace

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CMS and Base Academic Tech

ID Management, SIMI, Security

• Personal Productivity• Excellence in Learning and Teaching• Quality of Student Experience• Administrative Productivity and Quality

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CSU Integrated Technology Strategy Academic Technology Plan in 2003

– Developed through campus consultation and cross-functional leadership

– Approval/Direction on 1st Four Priorities by Presidents and Provosts Foundational Skills (Math, English, ICT) eLearning Framework (LMS, MERLOT, Libraries, ) Student Success (Degree Audit) Digital Marketplace

– Continued consultation with advisory groups +

– CO leaders provide new/additional directions

Want MORE?http://www.calstate.edu/ats

CSU Strategic Direction by Board of Trustee

Reduce Remediation Facilitate Graduation (22 Points of Light) Provide Access to Quality Education

– Section 508 compliant

– Affordable

– Convenient

The CSU has significant imperatives to improve

Digital Marketplace is a CSU Strategic Response to Imperatives for Change

VISION: Establish an electronic exchange and commerce

trading presence to share, sell, and distribute academic technology goods, and educational content and services to the CSU and subsequently to other institutions of higher education.

SCOPE OF IMPACT: Worldwide Service

SCOPE OF WORK: Focused on high value needs and low-hanging fruit

Digital Marketplace Village•Individual goals served•Sale of goods and services products•Amazon.com model

Town Council•Provide policies, laws, etc.•Start with CSU, and add other higher ed institutions as members later

City Managers & Professional Staff

•Provide infrastructure, operations and services

Department Store

- Commerce

•Direct sales between producers and customers•Wholesale to wholesale or retail to customers•Peer to peer transactions•eBay.com model• DIVA

•Peer to peer/public•Direct exchange/use/share•MERLOT free exchange section

•Serves the community good (Through “tax” dollars)•Some free services to public•ID authentication for privileges (Library Card)•CSU Electronic Core Collection•MERLOT peer review collection; services

Library

- Public Interest

Farmers Market

- Exchange/sale

Community Park

- Share

•Formality•Structure•Standards•Regulations

Warranty & implied quality assurance

What are the Benefits to the CSU? Enable student success through availability of learning

resources– Improve readiness– Deliver accessible education– Facilitate graduation

Reduce the cost of content to students Provide students greater choice in finding and organizing

content Provide faculty greater choice in designing curriculum

using free to fee-based content Provide a convenient and efficient one-stop, web-based

shopping Simplify life

Relationship: Work flow among functions Content provider distributes materials User browses and acquires materials from retailer Retailer provides permissions for acquiring material from

clearing house Content Host delivers material to user or users

application Clearing house handles the transaction and billing for

learning content royalties

Some Design PrinciplesWhat the Digital Marketplace is A broad set of open, standards-based Internet services that allow

for the exchange of commercial and non-commercial education content between many providers and many users

This exchange treats education content individually at an object-level This exchange operates independently of the application which uses

the education objects (e.g. a LMS or an eportfolio) This exchange enables full access compliance by using applications Providers are free to put conditions of use on their property Users are free to gather content from any source available Providers and users are free to negotiate terms as appropriate The integrity of the exchange is maintained by trusted third parties

which manage the exchange

The Digital Marketplace:What are the challenges? Requires

– True content inter-operability– True application inter-operability– Trusted rights management and billing mechanism– Parties working together to define the roles and how the roles will

work together Everyone must see the potential for meeting their own goals and

objectives– Business cases against specific business models close– Institutions meet their academic needs and operational

requirements Must establish a new entity for many-to-many transactions: Clearing

House The IP behind this design must be open User requirements must guide role and relationship definitions to

scale up consumption

Master Plan Multi-Phase Rollout

– CSU– MERLOT– ROW

Initial Phase (January, 2007)– Assure approach remains valid– Gather use case requirements from faculty, students,

publishers– Build initial elements as part of e-Leaning Architecture Initiative– Establish an governance structure to guide the development of

the DM– Look for early demonstration

Trial System (August, 2007) Version 1.0 (first wave of campus users) Production Rollout

(January, 2008)

Developing Partnership Approach must include key players in the HE learning marketplace Attendees at Digital Marketplace Summit on July &/or Sept 25-26 at the CSU

– AppleApple– Bedford, Freeman, WorthBedford, Freeman, Worth– Blackboard WebCTBlackboard WebCT– CISCOCISCO– Desire2LearnDesire2Learn– GiuntiGiunti– HarvestRoadHarvestRoad– IMS Global LearningIMS Global Learning– O.K.I./MITO.K.I./MIT– OracleOracle– O’Reilly MediaO’Reilly Media– PearsonPearson– SunSun– ThomsonThomson– Varsity BooksVarsity Books

Recent inquiries to join– Microsoft– Adobe– Angel– McGraw Hill– Carnegie Mellon– IBM

Applications views into DM for specific purposesApplications views into DM for specific purposes

Digital Marketplace will become transparent to users as application are defined by the users in the terms of how content is used and

interacted with to provide efficiencies in teaching and learning(DM will be the asterisk and not the focal point)

Digital MarketplaceContent Services

Syllabus Builder

LMS

Adaptive Learning

VirtualClassroom

ePorfolio

Data Warehouse

FacultyFacultyFacultyFaculty

FacultyFacultyAdministratorAdministrator

ProvostProvost

Dept HeadDept Head

StudentStudent

StudentStudentFacultyFaculty

Three Major ServicesThree Major Services

Publish / AssemblyServices

Content Services

Educational Applications

Services

User- FacultyUser- Faculty AdministratorsAdministrators

• Facilitates reuse• Enforces content compliance• Reduces time on task• Increases quality

User- Content providersUser- Content providers Content DeliveryContent Delivery

• Clearinghouse functions• Transparent to Faculty & Students

User- StudentsUser- Students FacultyFaculty AdministratorsAdministrators

• Use Case Driven• Aligned to CSU Initiatives• Customizable by campus

Digital Marketplace Architecture and Application View

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Content Protection Layer

Digital Marketplace

Oracle Services Oriented ArchitectureOracle Services Oriented Architecture

Digital Marketplace will be the first application deployed within the ATS SOA Digital Marketplace will be the first application deployed within the ATS SOA

eCommerce

9) Resource Upload and Submission

2) FederatedSearch

10) Content Authoring & Assembly

13) Assessment

14) Grading

Calendar

7) Course Catalog

11) CollaborationTools

6) Identity Access Management

8) Course Creation

4) E-Commerce

5) Content Protection Service

Workflow

Common CSU ATS Services

Optional CSU ATS Services

No Common Service plannedat this time

3) RepositoriesOf Record

& Federated Meta data

1) Content Delivery

CSU DM SOA ServicesCSU DM SOA Services

12)Content Preview

Leveraging the M.I.T / O.K.I projectLeveraging the M.I.T / O.K.I projectapproach to SOA flexibility and sustainability approach to SOA flexibility and sustainability along with the Oracle SOA implementation along with the Oracle SOA implementation

http://www.okiproject.org

Fundamental Technology StrategyFundamental Technology Strategy

Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs)Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs)

Define “Service Sockets” for Applications “Service Plug-ins” for Service Providers

One element of the SOA landscape Complementary with Web Services WSDL, etc.

and other protocols Supportive of Data/Metadata standards

Available elements using this approach Content / Repositories

Rotch Visual Collections Tufts Digital Library Tufts Artifact Google MERLOT ARIADNE Jstor ARTstor UCLA Digital Library iTunes U Cisco VMS Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Metamedia Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Others in progressPearson Custom PublishingThomson PublishingO’Reily

Configurable RepositoriesZ39.50Z39.50SRU/SRWSRU/SRWOAIOAIFedoraFedoraMySQLMySQLPostgresPostgresDspaceDspaceGiunti Learn eXact LobsterHarvestRoad HiveLocal Google site

Available elements using this approach(1st Pass need more validation) (2 of 2)

Federate Search ToolsFederate Search ToolsSearchPartyLionshareThalia image tool (MIT)Stellar image tool (MIT)Harvest Road Hive

Authoring ToolsPachyderm (Presentation Tool)Exact Packager (Learning Object Authoring)Hive Explorer with RELOAD

VUE (Concept Mapping)

LMSBlackboard (in progress)WebCT (in progress)SakaiMoodle (in progress)

Content PreviewVUEHarvest Road Explorer

Delivery ApplicationiTunes ULearn eXact Mobile

Delivery DevicesWeb BrowsersiPODIPACBlackberry

Kinds of Specifications/Standards

Data/Interface/Protocol Examples : Service Interface Specifications - including but not limited to:

– OSID

– Repository OSID for JSR 170 ( in process)

– Etc…

Data Specifications - including but not limited to:

– IMS Content Packaging

– IEEE LOM

– SCORM Packaging

– Dublin Core

– METS Schema

– Etc…

Protocol Specifications - including but not limited to:

– Web Services

– SRU/W

– Z39.50

– Etc…

Interface Adapters Patterns (types of OSID services)Interface Adapters Patterns (types of OSID services)

Federating

– e.g. search or submit with multiple targets

Unified View

– e.g. map disparate metadata to a common set of types

Disaggregation

– e.g. distribute implementation

Business Rule

– e.g. conditional behavior

Side-effect

– e.g. make a group when making a course

Version

– e.g. mapping to previous OSID implementations

Bridging

– e.g. providing cross language solutions

Pearson CSU LOR Merlot

OSID = Open Service Interface Definition (Magic Middleware)

(LMS – Get Content)

CSU Metadata Framework

Delivers and renders “same” information in different formats and locations

1 content into two locations in different formats

LMS

Authoring Tool

Assistive Device

StudentFaculty Librarian

CSU Institutional Repository

Summary Digital Marketplace is a technology infrastructure

service that enables – SCALEABLE CUSTOMIZATION of user-centered

application services– Technology-enhanced services across multiple

CSU initiatives– CSU to break down significant barriers to deliver

an accessible, affordable, and high quality education

www.calstate.edu

1. Professor Plum, from either a web browser (RLMS) or a desktop application (VUE), logs in.2. This results in a call to the Authorization OSID implementation for DM.3. All tools that operate within the DM use a common mechanism for user authentication.4. The DM receives authorization triples from campus IAM systems (who can do what with what).5. Federated search is distributed to multiple repositories.6. The search is converted from a common form to a back-end specific form. The same holds for converting

results from repositories to the common Asset and metadata form used with the OSID.7. Assets and their metadata flow back to the tool.8. Resource lists are created, based on assets, and stored in the Hive. Note that Hive can use notification and

workflow to alert the accessibility office for them to examine the resource list. 9. Hive can push resource lists to various LMSs.

Back up slides

CSU –DM Review Council

MERLOT –DM Review Council

DM Project Team

Governance Marketplace Functional Design

Engineering – Infrastructure

Deployment

DM Project Office

   

                      

 

CSU-DM Review Council Membership:

1 Provost, 2 CIO, 3 Faculty, 1 CFO, 1 Librarian, 1 Student Services (accessibility)

Responsibilities: • Represent and communicate with/to CSU campuses, DM Project Office, and other CSU advisory groups• Review and provide recommendations to the DM project office on the • Be the forum for issues and their resolution on the DM project. • Identify policy needs and recommend policies for the CSU’s planning, design, implementation and assessment of the DM project.

Use Case #1 Faculty “sampling” and selection for

instructional resources for students and professional development resources for themselves

Student acquisition of instructional resources (faculty-selected and self-selected) and student development resources

(see handouts)

How the Digital Marketplace will work

1: Content provider publishes content to hosting facility, informs retailers, informs clearing house

2: Retailer promotes content, user browses and acquires content from retailer, retailer informs clearing house

3: User receives permissions for content usage from clearing house

4: User received protected content from hosting facility

5: Clearing house handles billing and attribution

Content Hosting FacilityRetailer

Retailer

Content PublisherContent Publisher

Content Provider

Content Hosting FacilityClearing

HouseRetailer

Users

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Source: “Toward an Electronic Marketplace for Higher Education”, IEEE Computer, June 2005, pg 66ff.

January ’07 Interoperability Architecture based on Use Case (so Far)

Discovery Preview