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The following sections contain archival listings of OpenVES documents and other documents of interest to PK12 eLearning. Feel free to download these documents for reading and study. Please respect the copyright notices on the documents. We welcome your comments and suggestions.   Introductory and Program Documents OpenVES Mission and Overview This document provides an overview of the OpenVES mission and the vision we have to make a contribution to eLearning infrastructure and content for PK12 public education. All audiences OpenVES Sandbox Brochure This document describes the OpenVES Sandbox Program, its goals and its architecture. The educational impact is described, a new eLearning model is provided, an organizational development process and context is outlined, and the business case is made. A high level calendar is provided to illustrate the events planned for this multi-state initiative next year. Organizations interested in participating in the Sandbox Program should look at the Invitations to Participate which can be found by clicking on the Participation tab. NOTE: This document is formatted for 11x17 print and can be rotated for viewing in the Adobe reader. All audiences OpenVES Open Education License - White Paper This White Paper provides an overview of the OpenVES Open Education License model, its goals, and how it will work. The White Paper illustrates how various source licenses will be combined into a single Open Education License to make it easy for States to complete the licensing of many disparate products. It also describes how participating states will continue to benefit as new states join the licensing model and make their own contributions to it. All audiences   OpenVES Open Content License - White Paper This document is being formatted for inclusion in the OpenVES Document Archive. All audiences   OpenVES Principles of Operation - Privacy, Censorship, Advertising - White Paper This document is being formatted for inclusion in the OpenVES Document Archive All audiences The Content Delivery Problem - White Paper This document describes the issues involved in delivering rich media content to pk12 schools on the Web. It discusses the problem of aggregation entropy and proposes the solution of a standards based, open architecture, eLearning platform. It describes each of the issues faced by content providers, the problems to be avoided, the standards employed to solve each problem, and it describes the comprehensive OpenVES solution. The document also describes the alternate digital content delivery models supported by OpenVES which include satellite DVB, cable tv, and local digital broadcast. The document makes the case for digital content provider participation in the OpenVES sandbox pilot and prototype projects.  Public Content Providers, Universities, and Television Stations News Archive and OpenVES Updates OpenVES News Update - 26 July 2002 This document provides an update of OpenVES news and work progress. It covers a wide range of topics from development activity and multi-state initiatives to research and development. All audiences         Architecture Documents   OpenVES Architecture Primer This document is being formatted for inclusion in the OpenVES Document Archive All audiences OpenVES Gateway Clearinghouse - White Paper - 17 June 2002 Multiple states will be coming together next Fall to pilot, prototype and collaborate in the development and implementation of Open Virtual Education Spaces (OpenVES), to support teachers, students, and parents in implementing standards based eLearning infrastructure. In order to create and maintain a national standards database, and to provide common services in support of OpenVES efforts, a national non-profit PK12 Gateway Clearinghouse is a necessity. In this White Paper a high level set of requirements for a national gateway clearinghouse to support state efforts to implement their Virtual Education Spaces are presented. Such a gateway will implement the following seven functions: National and State Standards Database, Index, and Ontologies National Non-profit edUDDI Registry Content and Resource Indexing Tools and Search Repository edCommerce support for premium content and resource purchases Multi-Media Content Distribution, Caching and Streaming Capability xLINKS Persistent URL Registry Digital Rights Management Capability All audiences         Requirements and Historical Documents Original Massachusetts VES Requirements Document - Chapter 2 - Enterprise Description and Requirements - 13 Mar 2000 The enterprise is the work of PreK-12 public education and state funded Adult Basic Education in Massachusetts; the purpose of VES is to support the enterprise in the successful use of a standards-based curriculum in a face to face environment, to increase achievement for all students.VES tools, resources, and services will be offered to individuals who are members of the Massachusetts Department of Education, Local Education Agencies, educational collaboratives, and the general public.Massachusetts educators and students are the primary users of VES and will be provided a virtual desktop referred to as a VES Workspace. The purpose of this chapter is to document the enterprise and provide the details needed to ensure that VES furnishes educational stakeholders with the information they need, when they need it and valuable suite of tools, resources, and services intended to support them on a daily basis. This documentation effort is important and necessary to facilitate review and approval by the educational stakeholders, and to provide prospective vendors with a description of the enterprise and its requirements. All audiences Original Massachusetts VES Requirements Document - Chapter 3 - Systems Architecture and Requirements - 13 Mar 2000 The purpose of this chapter is to fully document the VES System Requirements for VES software components. This documentation will support development of some VES components, and identification, licensing, and integration of other components. This System Requirements documentation effort is important and necessary for two reasons: a) to assure that the VES systems which are required and specified in this chapter fully satisfy the enterprise requirements; and, b) to enable prospective VES component suppliers to understand the VES architecture and its technology and system requirements Technical audiences Original Massachusetts VES Requirements Document - Chapter 4 - Standards, Interfaces, and Hardware Requirements - 13 Mar 2000 This chapter of the VES Documentation is provided to prospective proposers to identify hardware requirements, systems requirements that are common to all VES sub-systems, or requirements that involve standards and integration issues. A set of procurement and implementation assumptions are also included to provide a common starting point for all vendor proposals. Technical audiences Original Massachusetts VES Requirements Document - Appendix A - Three Vision Papers from 1999 - 13 Mar 2000 This document contains three of the original 1999 White Papers which formed the conceptual framework and vision for the VES initiative. The first is an Introduction to the Virtual Education Space by Greg Nadeau, which begins, "I wake up every morning in the year 2003."  The second is a CLASP White Paper by Leslie Hazel Bussey and Kimberly Joyce, which describes their groundbreaking work on curriculum alignment with school districts in Massachusetts. The third, by T.S. Vreeland, is titled, Virtual Education Space - A Vision, which begins with this quote from Arthur C. Clarke, "In the beginning, all new technologies are perceived as magic..." and continues to describe VES as an opportunity for the "reengineering of the educational enterprise".  All audiences DRAFT OpenVES Educational Modeling Language Use Cases - April 2002 Prepared for the first Educational Modeling Language (EML) Conference in Valkenburg, Netherlands in April 2002, this draft paper describes use cases for the OpenVES Instructional Design System, Content Repository, and Virtual Learning Environment. We have attempted to incorporate the best ideas in educational technology, cognitive learning theory, pedagogical principles and best practice into the OpenVES educational tools. Based on the IEEE 1484 Learning Technology Standards Architecture, the OpenVES Architecture models best practice in Educational Technology and in Enterprise Web Design. Recognizing that each state and school district would want to localize VES to brand it and adapt it to local needs, we made it highly customizable. Recognizing that each student, parent and educator would want a personalized interface we created affinity groups and options for deep personalization. Recognizing that tools and resources needed change as roles change we provide role customization. Recognizing that users have different privacy preferences and needs for access, we created accessibility and privacy personalization options. Recognizing that students and teachers need a safe and secure environment on the web we have created an authentication and security system to assure that safety. Technical audiences         Standards and Specification Documents International PK12 Standards Landscape (DRAFT) - April 2002 This document is an attempt to provide an international roadmap to standards activity which has impact on PK12 technology and requirements. One purpose of this document is to encourage more participation by PK12 organizations and by others on their behalf. This document is marked draft because we are earnestly seeking your input to complete it and make it more useful, especially in relevant standards activity outside the United States. All audiences PK12 edXML and Standards Agenda - April 2002 This document provides a suggested agenda for the International standards community. It was created in an attempt to articulate the important areas of PK12 interests being handled within existing standards communities. All audiences Proposed edXML Mission and Scope - April 2002 This document provides a starting agenda for the edXML standards community in OASIS. It was created in an attempt to articulate the important areas of work not currently being handled within existing communities. This document will be refined and formalized as part of the OASIS edXML Technical Committee process. All audiences OpenVES - USoeC Assessment Exchange Architecture Document v 1.0 - 2 June 2002 This document serves to bring together in one place an exposition of the relationship between Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction in the OpenVES Architecture. It provides a reference model for pk12 eLearning based upon the IEEE 1484.1 Learning Technology Systems Architecture and the Educational Modeling Language (EML). The Assessment Architecture defines the Class and Object Model for an XML Assessment Markup Language based on the IMS Global Learning Alliance Specifications, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), and the SIIA Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF). Educators, Assessment Experts, Architects, Planners, Implementers OpenVES - USoeC Assessment Exchange Architecture Document - Appendix A - Glossary - v 1.0 - 2 June 2002 This appendix provides a glossary of terminology for Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction. It was published as part of the Assessment Exchange Architecture but is included here separately, formatted in landscape mode for readability. Educators, Assessment Experts, Implementers OpenVES - USoeC Question and Test Exchange (QTE) Implementation Specification Document v 1.0 - 2 June 2002 This document is an Implementation Specification for S2S Interoperability of Assessment Items and Tests. This specification is based upon the IMS QTI: ASI Information Model and provides information needed to build a realization of a subset of that model. This implementation is an entry-level specification for Assessment Interoperability in pk12 eLearning Platforms and S2S Assessment Exchanges. This Implementation Specification is built on and extends the IMS Question & Test Interoperability (QTI) specification with specific metadata, vocabulary, and taxonomies. This document describes the S2S Implementation, which is designed to be a “conforming” implementation of the IMS Specification. Architects, Planners, Implementers OpenVES - USoeC Question and Test Exchange (QTE) Best Practices Document v 1.0 - 2 June 2002 This document is designed to put the ideas of the OpenVES Assessment Architecture and the edXML Assessment Markup Language (AssessmentML) into an accessible context for pk12 educators and educational administrators. Through a series of examples and models it attempts to show what a State-to-State Assessment Exchange will look like, and how it will benefit administrators, educators, students and parents. The document focuses on the objectives of the S2S Assessment Exchange and the models for using it with secure high-stakes test item exchange, creation of a S2S Assessment Exchange Repository, high quality S2S standards based assessment discovery and exchange, and classroom discovery and use of online S2S assessment items. Educators, Assessment Experts, Planners,  Implementers

OpenVES Research Reports and Documents

Commissioned Research Report #XA-001 A Holistic Argument for the Deep Classification of Curriculum Standards Work in Progress Educators, Assessment Experts, Planners,  Implementers   Commissioned Research Report #XA-002 A Proposed Information Model and Reference Architecture for Management Information in PK12 Education Work in Progress Educators, Assessment Experts, Architects, Planners, Implementers   Commissioned Research Report #XA-003 Extensible XML Profiles and a Profile Exchange Protocol (PXP) for PK12 Education Systems Work in Progress Educators, Architects, Planners, Implementers   Commissioned Research Report #XP-001 PK12 Curriculum XML Markup Language and its Relationship to Evolving eLearning Standards Work in Progress Educators, Architects, Planners, Implementers   Commissioned Research Report #XP-002 PK12 Instructional XML Markup Language and its Relationship to Evolving eLearning Standards Work in Progress Educators, Architects, Planners, Implementers   Commissioned Research Report #XP-003 PK12 Assessment XML Markup Language and its Relationship to Evolving eLearning Standards Work in Progress Educators, Architects, Planners, Implementers   Commissioned Research Report #XE-001 The Rationale for a Free, Public eLearning Infrastructure for America Work in Progress Educators, Assessment Experts, Architects, Planners, Implementers   Commissioned Research Report #XE-002 A Sustainable Business Model for PK12 eLearning Infrastructure Work in Progress Educators, Assessment Experts, Architects, Planners, Implementers   Commissioned Research Report #XA-004 A Proposed Information Model and Reference Architecture for Online Assessment in PK12 Education Work in Progress Educators, Assessment Experts, Architects, Planners, Implementers   Commissioned Research Report #XE-003 A Systems Model for Accountability in Public Education Work in Progress Educators, Assessment Experts, Architects, Planners, Implementers   Commissioned Research Report #XE-004 Mapping State Ontologies for Standards Based Education Work in Progress Educators, Architects, Planners, Implementers

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