Illinois Shared Learning Environment

1. Illinois Shared Learning Environment Illinois Pathways Initiative – Lead Entity Discussion October 11, 2012 Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Illinois State Board of Education

2. Agenda

3. Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE) The State of Illinois is developing a statewide technology infrastructure known as the Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE). It will advance the personalization of learning and empower K-12, P-20, and workforce users to manage their academic and career pathways. Currently, the ISLE team is working on the design phase.

4. ISLE Overview • Statewide initiative to create an open source infrastructure • Collaboration with national initiatives including: • Share Learning Collaborative (SLC) • Learning Registry • Illinois is 1 of 5 states participating with Phase I implementation of the Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC)

5. Illinois Shared Learning Environment Work Force Early Learning • K12 • (SLC Technology) • Learning Maps • Dashboards • Portal • Curricular Support Other K12 Post Secondary To be further explored in RTT-ELC STEM Applications Program of Study Learning Maps Vendor and Open Source Apps State Developed Apps P-20 Alignment Using Longitudinal Data

6. Who is ISLE? Project Sponsors Illinois State Board of Education Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Project Implementation Partners Center for Workforce Development Advisory Committee (Proposed) CPS Bensenville SD 2 Urbana SD 116 Sandoval SD 501 P-20 Council Governor’s Office Early Learning Council Workforce ISBE DCEO IlliniCloud IIRC SIU/CWD UIUC/NCSA Community College University Civic Consulting Alliance: Overall Project Management

7. Illinois Shared Learning Environment What is the Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC)? The first wide-scale, coordinated effort to make technology the disruptive, revolutionary force in education it has been in almost all other industries. Consortium of Nine States Organized by CCSSO Funded by the Gates Foundation and Carnegie Corporation SLC is working to make personalized learning a reality for every U.S. student by improving the usefulness, variety, and affordabilityof education technology.

8. Illinois Shared Learning Environment What will SLC offer Illinois? A set of technology services that will allow districts and other users to safely and securely provide educatorswith the instructional data and tools they need to help make personalized learning a reality for all students. The SLC is the foundation for the Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE): “ISLE – Powered by SLC Technology”

9. Key Challenges Facing Educators With increasing external pressures and declining resources available, educators find themselves facing a number of challenges in the workplace “Just give us time to do some of the things we don’t have time to do” Lack of Time “Any time we want to collaborate it’s after school on our own time.” Limited Opportunity for Collaboration Changing Expectations “For new initiatives, you need to get teacher buy-in and involve them in the front line.” Decreasing Resources “$80 measly bucks for me to meet with other professionals and they won’t cover it?” Increasing Data Demands “It’s frustrating trying to figure out how to take data and do something with it to help students advance.” Limited capacity for personalized learning “What’s broken? The idea that ‘one size fits all.’ We aren’t meeting the learning needs of each student.”

10. So what does this mean for teachers?

11. State or Local Teacher Portal/ Dashboard/Learning Builder The Next Level State or Local Teacher Portal/ Dashboard / Learning Builder Take it to the next level by incorporating the technical and employability component. Student Resources & Assessment Tools (Technical and Employability) Professional Development (Technical and Employability) Student Data Student Data Lesson Plans (Common Core) Student Resources & Assessment Tools (Common Core) Learning Maps (Technical and Employability) Learning Maps Lesson Plans (Technical and Employability) Professional Development

12. What the ISLE technology will enable 3rd Party Data Management App 3rd Party Curriculum App 3rd Party STEM App 3rd Party Grading App SLC Sponsored Apps What the ISLE technology will include IL Sponsored Apps Learning Map Dashboard SLC Application Programming Interface (API) LRMI metadata schema SLC Secure multi-tenant data store Source systems data(classroom, schools, districts, state) Vendor Data 12

13. Design Phase Focus • Application Layer: • Leveraging SLC analysis of application scenarios • Defining scope of applications for investigation and responsibility between NIU-IIRC and SIU-CWD • RFI for input from vendor community • Online surveys and focus groups for input from IL educators and STEM/workforce development interests • Cloud Infrastructure & Enterprise Software: • Designing application development and production environment • Statewide identity integration/authorization system • Data model for all P-20 users • Long-term data transfer solution(s) for all P-20 users

14. Illinois Shared Learning Environment What comes next? • Pilotin Bloomington (D87) and McLean County (U5) of basic SLC functionality • SLC Technology Alpha Release – Now • SLC Technology Version 1 Release – Dec 2012 • ISLE Focus Groups and Requirements Development – Fall 2012 • Expansionto RttT Districts – Starting in 2013 • Build ISLE P20Components – Starting in 2013 • StatewideImplementation – 2014-15 and beyond