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The Education Architecture Group will explore and advise on issues related to integration with legacy application infrastructure of learning management systems (LMS), Student Information Systems (SIS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Integrated Library Systems (ILS), Instructional Apps, Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRM), Human Capital Management (HCM), Cloud Computing models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Hybrid), and self-sovereign digital identity. In addition, this group will investigate the integration of data across the multiple institutional, informal, and workplace learning experiences in the student’s lifetime of learning, and whether these can be integrated into a comprehensive record of an individual’s knowledge, skills, and ability.
Goals of the Hyperledger Working Group for Education Architecture Special Interest Group:
- Explore and showcase key educational use cases
- Foster collaborations between academic institutions, policymakers, vendors, and other education stakeholders
- Create open source, shareable assets to reduce barriers to entry and adoption for education stakeholders
- Develop and promote the adoption of important interoperability standards in open APIs and protocols for education use cases, including from open standards bodies such as: IMS Global Learning Consortium, IEEE, W3C, PESC, etc.
- Curate or develop professional development or technical assistance resources to support educational practitioners on approaches to applying blockchain technology across various educational use cases
Please provide an introduction that addresses why the working group is required and what are the main goals and objectives of the group.
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Scope: Please provide the scope and audience of the working group. Also, include items that are not within scope of this working group. It’s as important to define the boundaries, to ensure a well-focused working group.
The Education Architecture working group Special Interest Group is open to interested participants of all skill levels. In particular, this group will be comprised of institutional or individual participants across the education sector, including K12 school, districts, state entities, ministries of education and institutions of higher education. In addition, individual instructors, researchers, students, entrepreneurs, investors, technology vendors, practitioners, artists, librarians, corporations and policymakers are valuable participants.
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Work Products-Output assets from the Working Special Interest Group may include:
- Use cases
- Case studies and success stories
- Best practices
- Interoperability and compliance Assets
- Face-to-face events and meet-ups
- Podcasts or other social media engagement
- Open source software requirements
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The Education Architecture Working Special Interst Group will collaborate with other existing or future Hyperledger and other blockchain working groups focused on Education and Training (curriculum focused).
The Education Architecture Working Special Interest Group will also collaborate and share community development and standards work in credentialing and interoperability with appropriate standards bodies and groups interested in (1) DIDs; (2) data security; and (3) privacy policy. This includes groups working on DLT other than Hyperledger, such as Ethereum or other blockchains.
Other Industry Affiliations may include: We will reach out to other industry groups to determine their interest in participating.
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