At EDUCAUSE 2017, 1EdTech Consortium announced LTI Advantage, a revolutionary approach for integrating learning applications and platforms that greatly improves the user experience by solving crucial teaching and learning integration pain points without custom integrations. Based on years of feedback from both institutions and edtech suppliers, LTI Advantage provides institutions with a core integration strategy for enabling digital transformation that is secure, works with the leading LMS’s and tool providers and is data analytics ready. In this interactive panel discussion hear from IT and academic leaders—1EdTech higher education institutional members—who will share how this next phase of Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) is essential to advancing their digital ecosystem and achieving better learning experiences.

 

Speakers: Rob Abel (1EdTech Consortium), Michael Berman (California State University), Vince Kellen (Universit of California San Diego), Jennifer Sparrow (Penn State University)

 

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 31, 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

 

Join your peers in a lively discussion on the current state of microcredentials and badges in higher education. This meeting will focus on identifying specific examples of success and impact in higher ed and ways institutions can prepare for the implementation of microcredentials, badges, and related activities. We will also discuss ways this constituency group can contribute to current and future directions of microcredentials in higher education.

 

Braindate with Mark Leuba: Is your organization ready for Digital Credentials?

 

Noon – 12:45 p.m. Lunch

12:45 – 1:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions

1:00 – 1:45 p.m. The LTI “Advantage”: Driving Value and Innovation On Your Campus
LTI Advantage was announced during EDUCAUSE 2017 with great enthusiasm by institutions and suppliers as a solution to making interoperability easier, more cost-effective, and secure. We’ll kick off this 1EdTech member meeting by sharing the extraordinary accomplishments this past year to fast-track adoption of LTI Advantage at a pace never seen before--led in large part by the platform providers and other Contributing Member collaborations. A panel of platform and tool suppliers with share the role LTI Advantage will play in their product's strategy, in the short and longer term. Will also highlight the security and usability benefits that provide institutions with the most secure way to protect student data and privacy from their integrations.

1:45 – 2:30 p.m. Seal of Approval: Support, Certification and Working with Your Vendors
What does it mean for a vendor to be “1EdTech Certified?” And is that the same thing as “Support for LTI” (or any other 1EdTech specification)? 1EdTech Director of Higher Education Programs Cary Brown will walk you through what it means for your institution to work with 1EdTech Certified suppliers, and 1EdTech member institutions will share their strategies for encouraging and enforcing supplier conformance as part of the procurement process.

2:30 – 3:30 p.m. The Intersection of Tools and Data: Stop Signs or Green Lights?
The integrated digital ecosystem provides a number of advantages, but one of the biggest, and least understood is a common “highway” for the data flowing through your system. The new LTI Insights initiative from 1EdTech leverages the 1EdTech Caliper specification for learning data analytics and combines it with the secure, standardized connectivity of LTI to pull together a deep view into how, when, where and by whom tools are being utilized in your online teaching and learning environment. Join, and contribute to, an open discussion about this brand new offering from 1EdTech, and share and discuss requirements on your campus to help us shape LTI Insights to meet your needs!

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Moving the Ball Downfield: LTI and the Future of Interoperability
LTI Advantage marks a revolutionary step forward for the extremely successful LTI specification and what it means for safe, fast and easy integrations between learning platforms and tools. How can Higher Education come together as a community of institutions and suppliers to continue the adoption curve and drive the next generation of the integrated digital environment?

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