[edm-discuss] Re: Emerging student data standards

  • From: "Neil T. Heffernan III at WPI" <nth@xxxxxxx>
  • To: edm-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:41:51 -0400

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/
>
>


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