This is a project to support the work to create core data objects needed by most education applications and services in almost all horizontals, and verticals. This work will be focused and in partnership with the CEDS and CTDL work and include cross-standard cooperation with all the DSU standards.
This is a cross-standard (CEDS, A4L, and ed-fi) effort to create a universal special education data model that can be used in any PK20W+ environment
This is a project to harmonize all the efforts to create and define the LER- including the work being done in IEEE, HROS, T3, ADL, CEDS, 1EdTech, PESC, W3C, the INFUSE project. and many vendors in the wallet, credential, and employment space.
This is a web site and reference application that contains linked data to all the standards people would need for the ecosystem regardless of who publishes them. It would provide smart navigation, best practices and links to useful reference implementations all under one roof.
This is about setting up all the resources needed to sustain CEDS being available and either primarily housed or duplicated in an open location in case the ceds.ed.gov site goes down. It would also include working with the OSC to provide a frame for the processes and existence of the management of the CEDS resources.
One of the major thrusts of the DSU Initiative is to provide a platform and sets of agreements, outreach and learning that will maintain the data ecosystem in a sustainable way so that it can be managed with lower budgets and less work per vendor, organization, agency.
This is NOT about setting standards for AI - much bigger players are working on that. Rather this is about standardizing the way data needs to be stored, presented, and accessed such that it is optimized to support the use of AI and analytics and to standardize the outputs of the AI so it can be used to positively impact learning for the individual and make administration of the education data cheaper and easier for the organizations accountable for that.
This is a critical function of communicating and making sure that leadership - both new leadership and leadership that hasn't yet participated knows what is available and is exposed to the best practices and resources that are available.
A key aspect of the maintenance, sustainability and usability of the education data ecosystem is data and information governance. Issues of privacy, access, ownership, longevity, and accuracy of data are critical and managing the ecosystem so the learner controls and owns their data and the systems have the minimum they need to function is paramount to support self-sovereignty, learner mobility, and data portability.
This is about integrating links, documentation and how to leverage reference implementations that are in process or completed in the ecosystem. It will be integrated into the Standard's Library, and may include shared resource plans for multiple actors to utilize the same reference implementations.