our future…our choice

Our Future…Our Choice

Bradley C. WheelerAssoc VP & Dean of IT

Office of the Vice President & CIO

Assoc Prof. of Information SystemsKelley School of Business

Indiana University

http://www.theospi.org/

2OSPI User Conference July 2004

Proposition #1

P1: The educational system is meeting the needs of society.

A1: Transformative forces are imposing change on the educational system.



Proposition #2

P2: Current approaches for documenting, assessing, and credentialing learning and competencies are adequate.

A2: New approaches are required.



Proposition #3

P3: Education -- as an industry -- has models for effective inter-institutional, technology-enabled change.

A3: We must find a better model.



Two Challenges for IT in Higher Ed

Delivering sustainable economics to satisfied users

Advancing the frontiers of innovation for user expectations

TCP/IP, SendMail, HTTP

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Recent Historical Examples

Models for Industry Change

P1: Transformative forcesP2: ePortfolios essentialP3: Models for change



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What Lessons for ePortfolio?

• Economic efficiencies will prevail– Economies of scale and network effects

• Our choices will accelerate/impede this outcome

• Investments choose a coordination model– Corporate coordination via licensing fees– Self-coordination through shared will

• Designing the software and organization– Sustainable economics & innovation– Highly functional community



In Search of a Better Model…

CreatingSoftware

SustainingSoftware

CommunitySourceProjects

PartneringOrganizations

Higher EdCoordination

Open IP

LicensingFees

MaintenanceFees

CommercialCoordination

Closed IP

Objective…sustainable economics and innovation for satisfied users

…for how we pay and what we get. Software is not free.

Bundled IP & Support Unbundled IP & Support + Commercial Support Options



Higher Ed CollaborationCan higher ed capture economies of scale in software

creation and maintenance?

LifecycleSystemCosts/

Effectiveness

Number Participating

Solo

FunctionalPartnership

DysfunctionalPartnership

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Capturing Industry Leverage:•Learning how to partner•Synchronizing institutional investments•IT architecture discipline•Creating effective consortia•Common licensing!!



Controlling Our Destiny

• Functionality of systems, integration, standards…innovation

• Cost of systems operations, maintenance, timing, evolution

PKIDartmouth

Chandler/Westwood


http://www.osafoundation.org/index.htm

http://vue.tccs.tufts.edu/index.cfm

The ePortfolio Challenge




What is an ePortfolio?

A collection of purposefully-organized digital artifacts that support backward and forward reflection to augment and assess growth over time.

Distinguished by• Individual-centric• Learner-OWNED



ePortfolio Objectives

• for Learners• Provide the tools for reflective assessment with structure and

purpose

• for Instructors• Assessment via demonstration of competencies• Within and across courses, educational experiences

• for Institutions• Institutional assessment for accreditation, measurement of

progress, admissions

• for Society• Career, volunteering



Within andacross courses

and schoolsK-12 Portfolio Software

Within andacross courses

and universities, colleges, trade schools, etc.

Higher Ed Portfolio Software

Within andacross companies, personal

pursuits, professional development,experiences, or additional degrees

Career Development Portfolio Software

Faculty and/or Course PortfoliosScholarship of Teaching & Learning

Within and across courses, disciplines, faculty, careers, and institutions

PersonalPortfolio

Data

OSP 2MellonProject

Four Domains of ePortfolio



Within and across courses and universities, colleges, trade schools, etc.

The Friction-less ePortfolio?

Grad SchoolView

View

Career


About the Open Source Portfolio Initiative

Build ePortfolio Software

Facilitate Community




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1st communitymeeting

Jan-03 - Jul-03Initial Project

Jul-04User Conference



Open Source Portfolio Initiative

• Build the Open Source Portfolio (OSP)– Java / J2EE– Sakai’s Technology Portability Profile / OKI

• Licensed under OSPI License 1.0– Most similar to Jabber Open Source License– Moving to a common license

• The Educational Community License 1.0 (ECL)



OSP Challenges

• Learner-owned data, views, access

• Inter-institutional authenticity, integrity of artifacts

• Scoping for now…thinking about tomorrow

• Data standards, threads of ePort software everywhere

• Engage other ePortfolio domains: K-12, Career, Faculty…



Call to Engagement

• P1: Change is upon us

• P2: Life-long learning – for a knowledge-based economy – needs portfolios

• P3: Our choices create the model

• Your engagement, choices, influence, and contributions [collectively] determine the path for ePortfolio evolution


Our Future…Our Choice

Bradley C. WheelerAssoc VP & Dean of IT

Office of the Vice President & CIO

Assoc Prof. of Information SystemsKelley School of Business

Indiana University



our future…our choice

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