Internet of Education (IoE) Task Force

Objective

To incubate the development of an Internet of Education (IoE) ecosystem governance framework and suite of shared, public-good utilities based on IEEE’s Integrated Learner Record Recommended Practices; facilitate the creation or selection of an appropriate governance authority.

Copyright Policy

The copyright mode for this Task Force is: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Each Task Force Participant agrees that its Contributions are subject to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY).

Approved Deliverable Patent Licensing (other than source code)

The patent mode for this Task Force is: W3C Mode

1. Licensing Commitment. For materials other than source code developed by the Task Force, each Task Force Participant agrees to make available any of its Essential Claims, as defined in the W3C Patent Policy, under the W3C RF licensing requirements Section 5, in Approved Deliverables adopted by that Task Force as if that Approved Deliverable was a W3C Recommendation. Source code developed by the Task Force is subject to the license set forth in this Task Force charter 
2. For Exclusion. Prior to the adoption of a Draft Deliverable as an Approved Deliverable, a Task Force Participant may exclude Essential Claims from its licensing commitments under this agreement by providing written notice of that intent to the Task Force chair (“Exclusion Notice”). The Exclusion Notice for issued patents and published applications must include the patent number(s) or title and application number(s), as the case may be, for each of the issued patent(s) or pending patent application(s) that the Task Force Participant wishes to exclude from the licensing commitment set forth in Section 1 of this patent policy. If an issued patent or pending patent application that may contain Essential Claims is not set forth in the Exclusion Notice, those Essential Claims shall continue to be subject to the licensing commitments under this agreement. The Exclusion Notice for unpublished patent applications must provide either: (i) the text of the filed application; or (ii) identification of the specific part(s) of the Draft Deliverable whose implementation makes the excluded claim an Essential Claim. If (ii) is chosen, the effect of the exclusion will be limited to the identified part(s) of the Draft Deliverable. The Executive Director will publish Exclusion Notices.

Source Code

Participants contributing source code to this Task Force agree that those source code contributions are subject to the Developer Certificate of Origin version 1.1, and the license indicated below.

• MIT License, available at: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT. 
• Source code may not be a required element of an Approved Deliverable specification.

Background/Context

The Ed 3.0 Research Network (60-min 1/17/20 launch) is a global movement to support lifelong, personalized, competency-based learning at the scale of the Internet.  Four initial nodes include:

• ASU Trusted Learner Network (60-min 2/21/20 interview).  ASU TLN is the leading example of blockchain-based, reverse transfer education network and application.
• Broward OpenCLR Lab (4-min video, 60-min 3/20/20 interview).  Broward is the 6th largest K12 district in the nation. The Broward OpenCLR Lab is partnering with Algebra Project, Broward College, the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, ETS, PCG, and others to transform postsecondary success for the most vulnerable young learners.
• Colorado C-Lab (60-min 4/15/20 interview). The C-Lab is leveraging the state's leadership in distributed identity and verifiable credentials to create a decentralized but unified state learning economy.
• Digital Credential Consortium (5/16/20 interview). DCC is a MIT/Harvard-led network of leading universities to enable education record exchange that preserves personal data control.

IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (6/5/20 call for participation) of Conceptual Model for Learning Technology Systems (integrating USED CEDS and DOD TLA)  and Integrated Learner Record (ILR) Recommended Practices (integrating the work of  W3C VC, IMS Global CLR, US Chamber T3, US DOC AWPAB and others).

Organizing Committee

1. Alex Jackl, Bardic Systems, CA Community Colleges, A4L SDPC
2. Chris Purifoy, Learning Economy Foundation
3. Dummond Reed, Evernym
4. Greg Nadeau, PathCheck Foundation (PCG/EY/MIT), IEEE, IMS Global
5. Matt Gee, BrightHive
6. Nick Ris, Evernym
7. Phil Long, ASU TLN, US Chamber T3
8. Simone Ravaioli, Digitary, IEEE
9. Takis Diakoumis, Digitary/Australia
10. Taylor Kendal, Learning Economy Foundation, C-Lab

Deliverables

Key deliverables will include, but are not limited to:

• An open, inclusive ecosystem governance framework
• An extensible meta-registry of trusted VC issuers

Milestones

Key milestones will include, but are not limited to:

• Connect nodes of Ed 3.0 Research Network (E3RN), T3 Innovation Network, Learning Economy Co-Labs, and other interested parties.

Meeting Schedule

Coming soon...