{"id":709972,"date":"2007-08-19T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/segue.middlebury.edu\/view\/html\/node\/709972"},"modified":"2021-01-01T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:51:21","slug":"openiworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/2007\/08\/19\/openiworld\/","title":{"rendered":"OpeniWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adam Franco and Alex Chapin did a showcase presentation at OpeniWorld<\/a> last week in New Orleans with the working title of “O.K.I. Open Service Interface Definitions as a Native Framework API<\/a>“.\u00a0 Held in conjunction with the 2007 Merlot<\/a> (M<\/span>ultimedia E<\/span>ducational R<\/span>esource for L<\/span>earning and O<\/span>nline T<\/span>eaching) conference, OpeniWorld is a new venue focusing on interoperability standards in education that follows somewhat in the tradition of Alt-i-Lab<\/a> (A<\/span>dvancing L<\/span>earning T<\/span>echnology I<\/span>nteroperability), a series of conferences organized by IMS Global Learning Consortium.<\/p>\n

The work of the Open Knowledge Initiative<\/a> (O.K.I.) continues to be central to efforts to define standards by which independent curricular systems can interoperate.\u00a0 Support for this work recently expanded within educational technology when California State University (CSU) committed to using the O.K.I. open service interface definitions<\/span> (OSIDs) as the means to connect their various curricular systems to their Digital Marketplace<\/a> initiative.\u00a0 At the same time, the O.K.I. work is extending beyond education.\u00a0 The Institute for Electronic Governance in Hyderabad, India is planning to use the OSIDs to increase interoperability amongst its information systems.<\/p>\n

The CSU Digital Marketplace (DMP) is one of the largest initiatives to date to commit to using the OSIDs and should provide excellent real-world applications of these standards.\u00a0 The DMP initiative also involves a diversity of technologies and service providers requiring interoperability between applications developed in different programming environments such as Sakai (writted in Java) and Moodle (written in PHP).\u00a0\u00a0 The Campus Project at the Open University of Catalonia<\/a> is another large initiative that is planning to use the OSIDs to integrate Sakai and Moodle.\u00a0 Essentially both initiatives would like to make possible content that can become independent of the tool or system used to create it and tools and systems that can access content from a variety of sources.<\/p>\n

Stuart Sim, the CTO of Moodlerooms<\/a> and an active participant at the conference, emphasized the need to create simple “Hello World” applications that can be a reference for developers who want to begin using the OSIDs.\u00a0 Stuart has been an advocate for Harmoni<\/a>, our service-oriented application framework that includes implementations of the OSIDs and wants to find ways to use Harmoni to introduce OSIDs into future versions of Moodle.<\/p>\n

Scott Morris, a manager of education marketing at Apple, was another key participant.\u00a0 Scott showcased the Apple Learning Interchange<\/a> (ALI), a personal content management system and social network for educators, which feels like a cross between the iTunes Music Store<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0 Educators can use the site to create projects and media collections that they can collaboratively develop with colleagues and then share using a Creative Commons<\/a> license.\u00a0 Scott noted how learning management systems are being decomposed into smaller, more specialized applications and how students want to use the same tools to access learning material as they use for other content such as iPods, iTunes and iLife, as well as IM, blogs, cell phones and so on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OpeniWorld:eLearn Adam Franco and Alex Chapin did a showcase presentation at OpeniWorld last week in New Orleans with the working title of “O.K.I. Open Service Interface Definitions as a Native Framework API“.\u00a0 Held in conjunction with the 2007 Merlot (Multimedia… More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6088],"tags":[6097,6098,6095],"class_list":["post-709972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-708914","tag-harmoni","tag-o_k_i","tag-presentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200002892934,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709972\/revisions\/200002892934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/curricular-technologies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}