An Information Architecture for Education
A4L Community Meeting
November 2017, Melbourne
ALL GENERALIZATIONS ARE DANGEROUS, EVEN THIS ONE
Alexander Dumas
national
system
local
To be effective, Education needs quality data to be available in all contexts a learner encounters.
Learning is experimental, success at all levels means amplifying, not generalising the best outcomes.
This is only possible with consistent, comparable, helpful and accurate data.
lifelong learning
change school
change sector
- enrol
- change class
- change subjects
- change focus
- change teachers
- assess
- change school
- change sector
- family change
- qualify
The Digital Learner
is an
Event Stream
lifelong learning
change school
change sector
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schools, school systems and curriculum authorities
generate & respond to events...
...BUT who supports the journey
&
What does it take to support that journey well...
what if education data were a gps?
(and we should be)
You Are Here, probably.
Choose Your Own Adventure
For this to work, explicitly...
- I need to know where you are
- Have some idea of where you're going
- Must have good data at every step
- Especially when you change direction
For this to work, implicitly...
- I am prepared to share my information
- I do so because I understand the value of the service on offer
- I need to trust the results you provide
An Information Architecture for Education
- lifelong support
- of someone who controls their own destiny
- with the best data possible
- to make the best decisions possible
- who trusts & shares
- to access services of benefit
- to achieve the best outcome
So are we nearly there yet?
more here...
...than here
An Information Architecture for Education
Can We?
- support learners across all contexts
- share reliable data easily & quickly
- allow success to be amplified effectively
- give learners agency in their data & services
- be trusted
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
A New Model
To design out the existing limitations, we need to build on a different foundation.
Make student data and self-agency the central focus.
national
system
local
student
data
entitlement
The
Interoperability
Foundation
The
Learning
Services
Architecture
The
Student
Data
Entitlement
Evidence &
Data Sharing
An Information Architecture for Education
> enables >
> enables >
> enables >
InteroperabilityFoundation
Now
- Agreed AU Data Model
- Common Definitions
- Common Understanding
- Technical Assets
- Assurance Testing
Future
- Support an evolving data model
- Support multiple standards
- Embed privacy & security controls
- Make adoption easier
- Be cloud native
Learning Services Architecture
Now
- Common Definitions
- Common Processes
- Common Understanding
- Use Cases
- Common Market Interface
- Nationally Aligned Delivery
Future
- Support inter-agency exchanges
- Formalise the architectural patterns
- Create a Trust environment; safety, security & privacy
- Explicit identity & reputation
Student Data Entitlement
Now
- Multiple facets of student record captured and exchanged according to standard
Future
- Lifelong Learning (longitudinal record) a baseline assumption
- Student/Parent ownership of data
- Consent and Privacy as first-class citizens
- Guarantees & Service Levels for information exchange
Evidence & Data Sharing
Now
- Burden of compliance
- Fragmented collections
- Unaware of consistent data available from the LSA
- Privacy as a risk
- Consent as a risk
- Collaboration as a risk
Future
- Assumption of available good quality data
- Assumption that sharing is possible
- with Privacy a mitigated risk
- with Consent a mitigated risk
- Collaboration as a default
A4L - SIFAAMB - NSIP
Nurture the AU Data Model
Continue the LSA rollout
Support the unified market interface
Create a Trusted Environment
Put the student at the centre
Give them their data
Make sharing safe, easy and normal
Make data the currency to exchange for service
...very much a game of two halves.
A New Model
- I own my data and the journey.
- Data supports me and those who help me to make the best decisions we can.
- The architecture ensures safety, security, privacy, trust & consent.
- Evidence allows insight to arise at any and every location.
- Success can be amplified because we've instrumented the learner and the system.
national
system
local
student
data
entitlement
An Information Architecture for Education
Making this work for
everyone
is the
new agenda
A4L Community Meeting
November 2017, Melbourne
thankyou.