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
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Proposition #1
P1: The educational system is meeting the needs of society.
A1: Transformative forces are imposing change on the educational system.
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Proposition #2
P2: Current approaches for documenting, assessing, and credentialing learning and competencies are adequate.
A2: New approaches are required.
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Proposition #3
P3: Education -- as an industry -- has models for effective inter-institutional, technology-enabled change.
A3: We must find a better model.
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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
Linux
Apache, JBoss
Applications?
Open Source is M
oving up the Stack
Recent Historical Examples
Models for Industry Change
P1: Transformative forcesP2: ePortfolios essentialP3: Models for change
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University Enterprise PortalsC
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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
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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
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Higher Ed CollaborationCan higher ed capture economies of scale in software
creation and maintenance?
LifecycleSystemCosts/
Effectiveness
Number Participating
Solo
FunctionalPartnership
DysfunctionalPartnership
?
Capturing Industry Leverage:•Learning how to partner•Synchronizing institutional investments•IT architecture discipline•Creating effective consortia•Common licensing!!
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Controlling Our Destiny
• Functionality of systems, integration, standards…innovation
• Cost of systems operations, maintenance, timing, evolution
PKIDartmouth
Chandler/Westwood
The ePortfolio Challenge
P1: Transformative forcesP2: ePortfolios essentialP3: Models for change
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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
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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
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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
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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
P1: Transformative forcesP2: ePortfolios essentialP3: Models for change
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Jul-04User Conference
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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)
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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…
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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
P1: Transformative forcesP2: ePortfolios essentialP3: Models for change
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