NIAS 3
IT's ABOUT TRUST
dimensions
of
trust
: to hope or expect confidently
-Merriam-Webster Online
trust
The
system
- will educate every student well
- will nurture lifelong learning
- will be individually engaging
- will make sound choices based on evidence
trust
The
PLACE
- schools are accountable to their community
- they make local decisions and choices
- progress is a local concern
- ...but systemic support can disappear
trust
The
MACHINES
- is my data safe?
- is my data secure?
- is my privacy respected?
- do I give informed consent?
- do I own my data?
trust
YOUR
people
- data makes nothing happen
- talking about data does
- data must:
- empower a teacher to be the most effective they can be
- empower a student to achieve the most that they can
TRUST in the future
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading
– Lao Tzu
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times
– Niccolo Machiavelli
One teacher in the study referred generally to educational reform efforts as "going in one year and out the other."
- James A. Levin and Amanda Datnow
The Principal Role in Data Driven Decision Making (2012)
the school paradox
chaos
stability
school
for example...
OUR challenge
new goals in australian education
GONSKI 2.0
Deliver at least one year’s growth in learning for every student every year
Equip every child to be a creative, connected and engaged learner in a rapidly changing world
Cultivate an adaptive, innovative and continuously improving education system
OUR RESPONSE
new goals in australian education
GONSKI 2.0
Deliver at least one year’s growth in learning for every student every year
Equip every child to be a creative, connected and engaged learner in a rapidly changing world
Cultivate an adaptive, innovative and continuously improving education system
feedback loops with evidence must be immediate, relevant and seamless to use
requires an adaptive system of data management and integration
teachers need evidence for such judgements,
even if agreed measures are still developing
nias 3
Adaptive Data Infrastructure
trust in place
scale as needed
N3 supports multiple deployment topologies, and allows mixtures of these to suit the local needs and concerns.
It scales down as well as up from single machines to cross-enterprise clusters.
individual
school
system
intra-system
N3 nodes can run as self-contained services on a single machine to allow inter-application interoperability
N3 nodes can be run at a school level to allow interoperability and aggregation of data for analytics
N3 nodes form a distributed network to allow sharing and interoperability across an enterprise
N3 systems can communicate across organisational boundaries to share student information between organisations and systems
HOW we share
All data is broken down into its smallest atomic representation, and forms a property-graph of data tuples that can be used for interoperability or for data exploration and learner support.
Data in any known standard structure or arbitrary xml/json can be broken down into tuples and added to the graph.
Associations between different data sets can be created by adding equivalence tuples in a context.
the graph learns
infrastructure service learns new data formats as they transit the system, we can support in a single model:
- xAPI / Caliper (Learning Event Data)
- SIF / EdFi (Establishment Data)
- XML/JSON (Local Arbitrary Data Formats)
Streams
Security & privacy
an enabling infrastructure
same data, many services
different data, same objective
n3 solution notes
- N3 is open-source and we welcome collaboration and input
- N3 is an implementation of a candidate architecture for secure data-sharing, streaming data management and multi-standards support
- All system components have existing enterprise alternatives;
- messaging - mulesoft; rabbitmq; amazon/azure messaging
- datastores - Cosmos, Neptune, Foundation, ElasticSearch
- Please get in touch if you want to know more!
NIAS 3
By matt_farmer
NIAS 3
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