Building the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment with
Building the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment with APIs and Open Standards Lower technology barriers and newer technology approaches are beginning to make it easier to assemble different teaching and learning tools together to use them in new and better ways. Standards • • • APIs Becoming popular as a native feature for most new teaching and learning tools/content Extremely easy and useful for plug-and-play connectivity among existing systems Establish “common denominator” support across systems Reduce possibility of vendor lock-in Dependent on specific version compatibility/capabilities among systems • • • Go above and beyond what standards can do to support advanced features/uses Move quickly and flexibly on your timeline Good for repeatable, institution-specific projects Can help to ease into collaborative efforts across schools, departments, and central IT Connect into systems that do not implement standards Less limiting but requires more effort Blend both to accelerate your projects – here are some examples/ideas: APIs can turn this… With standards, custom integration projects… Source: edutechnica. com …into this Adapt the out of the box LMS User Interface… …become clicks, not code Embed the LMS within your content – not your content within the LMS Source: hibbittsdesign. org Enable new pedagogies not limited by rigid technology solutions …to suit your exact desires/needs Make new models of content creation and collaboration possible Presented by George Kroner (George. Kroner@umuc. edu) at EDUCAUSE ELI 2016
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