Standards in Dutch educationDevelopment and registration of national standards

H-P Köhler, Kennisnet

Standards! Why are they so important?

• They form the fundamental building blocks

• They create compatibility and interoperability

• They fuel the national en international trade of content

• They create transparency

• They prevent a vendor lock in

Our goal with standards in Dutch education…

To create an open and transparent infrastructure…

We use standards in three areas

EDUCATION BUSINESS

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Standards facilitate the content supply chain

Making it available

Making it findable

Arranging

Using

Developing

Schools Suppliers

selecting learning materials

providing learning materials

Mixing learning materials

Using learning materials

learning materials

policy

make it discoverable

distribution and access

the actual using

development

findability

accessibility

usefulness

Process architecture

Schools Suppliers

Standards to facilitate “Findability”

• NL-LOM (Dutch application profile IEEE-LOM)

• Price information (extra set of metadata)

• OBK (Dutch datamodel of educational concepts)

selecting learning materials

make it discoverablefindability

Public broker service

• EduRep

SuppliersSchools

Standards to facilitate “Accessibility”

• ECK standard “Distribution and Access”

A description of webservices about:

• Accounts, Profile data, Orders, Distribution, Payment, Licenses and

Product lists

providing learning materials

distribution and accessaccessibility

Public broker service

• Entree & Kennisnet Federation

Schools

Suppliers

Standards to facilitate “Usefulness”

• UWLR (Dutch standard, exchange of student results)

• OBK (semantic datamodel of educational

concepts)

• NL-LOM (Dutch application profile IEEE-LOM)

Mixing learning materials

the use of learning materials

the actual usingusefulness

Standardization & Application profile process

Research Development Testing EvaluationModification Registration

Administration

Communication Support Adoption strategy

Governance model, public private partnership

Strategic level

Tactical level

Operational level

• Relationships between methods and OER• Agreement on the exchange of test questions• Agreement on the exchange of learning outcomes• Agreements regarding the distribution and access of digital

learning material• Agreement on ownership and provenance of metadata.

The Results