{"id":69,"date":"2016-02-03T12:54:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T12:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2016-03-03T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T12:56:29","slug":"actionable-data-book-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/actionable-data-book-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Actionable Data Book – What is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actionable Data Book (AD Book) Project is under the auspices of the IEEE\u2019s Industry Connections Program (IEEE IC12-006). The IEEE\u2019s Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC)<\/a> is a sponsor of the AD Book Project. We are early on in the process and looking to involve\u00a0industry partners in our future work.<\/p>\n

The ADB is just a container of stuff without regard to a where the content resides. The content is instrumented with xAPI<\/a> that collects human performance data in real-time as the content is being consumed. The magic occurs with the real-time two-way feedback of formative and summative data from the ADB’s activities to the learner and teacher that informs both of the current learners trajectory. Learners can initiate community-based social interaction that enhances and accelerates the learning experience. Below is a set of FAQs on the project.<\/p>\n

What is an Actionable Data Book?<\/p>\n

Just as has happened with publishing in general, the use of tablet computers as a major platform for the delivery of educational materials is an inevitability. Educational publishers, following the publishing industry trend, have embraced the idea of delivering textbooks and other educational materials digitally. But their vision of the ebook starts from the paper books they already create\u2014plus some nice, tablet-enabled features like portability, search for keywords, embedded video, and interactive graphics. The AD Book Project started from the other direction\u2014if learners are going to have tablets in their hands, what kinds of educational products will publishers be publishing? How will authors and publishers make use of a hand-held, mobile, Internet-enabled computer with tons of embedded technology to advance the state of education and training?<\/p>\n

Why does the IEEE AD Book Project think a standard is needed?<\/p>\n

The AD Book Project is a small group of volunteers who have been meeting weekly for over a year. We include publishers, technologists, educators, and standards experts. People from the ADL have participated in the AD Book Project, and people from the Project have participated in ADL xAPI cohorts, twice. Our vision is quite simple: enable content portability, as SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) did, but in an e-learning ecosystem that has become much more complex:<\/p>\n

Product categories that include the traditional products, Learning Management Systems, and content authoring tools, but also Learning Record Stores (LRSs); analytics engines; instructors\u2019 lesson planning apps and dashboards; learner\u2019s e-portfolios and calendar apps; ebook readers; job aids; competency frameworks; and publishers\u2019 content and data platforms.
\nNew pedagogical contexts: flipped classrooms; experiential or activity-based learning; collaborative learning; just-in-time learning; \u2026.
\nNew kinds of e-learning content and technologies: mobile; personalized (based on multiple cloud data sources); adaptive over time; immersive games and simulations; augmented reality for job support.
\nPublished content that uses the functionality of the tablet (Global Positioning System (GPS), camera, mic, motion, orientation, touch, gesture, Wifi, Bluetooth) in a web-connected environment possibly surrounded by Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Also, the tools for creating such content.<\/p>\n

The interoperability standard we envision will allow all of these new kinds of published materials to securely exchange data with all of the new kinds of products. Our goal is a plug-and-play architecture that allows creative assembly of products into a myriad of solutions and avoids vendor lock-in: preserving investment in learning materials while allowing new, innovative products to enter the market.<\/p>\n

What is the Project\u2019s technical approach?<\/p>\n

The AD Book group has explored many technologies and related standards projects. We are committed to the concept of the AD Book as an open standard or a reference model based solely on open standards. Here\u2019s where we\u2019re at:<\/p>\n

We have used the IDPF\u2019s EPUB3 spec and the related EDUPUB specifications in our early explorations. We follow their evolution and hope that they will eventually meet our requirements. At this point, given the available EPUB3 readers, we see shortcomings, particularly as regards access to tablet functionality. There may be \u201copen standard\u201d issues as well. HTML5 is what we use mostly now to create AD Book publications.
\nThe ADL\u2019s xAPI spec is being used almost exclusively in our exploratory work. Hence the interest of the ADL in the AD Book Project. Here is the xAPI GetHub for more information site<\/a>
\nWe\u2019ve also used the W3C\u2019s Packaged Web Apps (Widgets)<\/p>\n

What other capabilities would we like to see with the AD Book Project\u2019s work<\/p>\n

From our perspective, we\u2019d like to see prototypes that:<\/p>\n

Operate in a plug and play ecosystem
\nIncorporate commercial products from multiple vendors
\nTie multiple learning activities together<\/p>\n

We would also like to see demonstrations of how an Actionable Data Book can enable dramatic improvements or efficiencies in education and training. For instance, how can more data about learners, learning, and\/or learning materials actually help instructors and learners? How can publishing teams author materials that are instrumented to generate useful data or use a tablet\u2019s advanced functionality to improve instruction? How will Actionable Data Books change the relationship between training and on-the-job performance?<\/p>\n

Finally, we\u2019d like to offer our most advanced prototype to date as an example of what we are up to. This 30-minute video<\/a>\u00a0demonstrates the work done in the ADL\u2019s xAPI \u2018Data Trippers\u2019 Cohort earlier in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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