Hi Turadge I am familiar with EdFi. I have a colleague involved with its re-visioning who is cced. Its important in the Shared Learning Infrastructure via Gates We are not currently using it in ASSISTments, but I thing it is important. Neil On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Turadg Aleahmad <turadg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I just came across Ed-Fi and thought the > EDM<http://educationaldatamining.org>and > Educoder <http://educoder.github.com> communities may be interested in > helping shape the specification. It seems similar to Learning > Registry<http://www.learningregistry.org>. > Anyone on these lists making use of these student data standards? > > > Request for Comment (RFC) Period Opens for Upcoming Ed-Fi™ 1.1 release | > <http://www.ed-fi.org/2012/07/request-comment-rfc-period-opens-upcoming-ed-fi-1-1-release/> > Ed-Fi.org > > The Ed-Fi Discussion <http://discussions.zoho.com/ed-fi#home> > > > From the Ed-Fi.org FAQ <http://www.ed-fi.org/faqs/#what-is-ed-fi>: > >> The Ed-Fi solution includes an XML-based data specification combined >> with a free tool suite developed by the Michael & Susan Dell >> Foundation<http://www.msdf.org/> to >> improve student achievement in the K-12 education sector. The Ed-Fi >> solution extracts student information from a variety of educational data >> systems, and then standardizes, integrates and communicates it to educators >> and other parties through Web-based dashboards, reports and other >> applications. >> The Ed-Fi solution equips educators with actionable insights, so they can >> then make informed decisions on steps to improve the academic outcomes of >> students. School and district administrators, state, and federal agencies >> can also use this information as a supplement or replacement for broader >> state or federal accountability reporting purposes. > > > > -Turadg Aleahmad > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~taleahma/ > > -- Neil T. Heffernan. Associate Professor Departments of Computer Science and Psychology Co-Director of the Learning Sciences and Technologies PhD Program 100 Institute Road Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 01609 http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~nth 508-831-5569 www.assistments.org <http://www.assistment.org>