Standards are important in Dutch education to create compatibility, transparency, and prevent vendor lock-in. The goal is to create an open infrastructure using standards in three areas: education, business, and scientific research. Standards facilitate the content supply chain by allowing schools to select materials, suppliers to provide them, and for materials to be mixed and used. Specific standards help with findability (metadata standards), accessibility (distribution and access standards), and usefulness (exchange of results and concepts standards). Standards go through a process of research, development, testing, evaluation and modification before being registered and adopted through a public-private partnership governance model.

1. Standards in Dutch education
Development and registration of national standards
H-P Köhler, Kennisnet

2. Standards! Why are they so important?
• They form the fundamental building blocks
• They create compatibility and interoperability
• They fuel the national en international trade of content
• They create transparency
• They prevent a vendor lock in

3. Our goal with standards in Dutch education…
To create an open and transparent infrastructure…

4. We use standards in three areas
EDUCATION BUSINESS
SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH

5. Standards facilitate the content supply chain

6. Schools Suppliers
selecting
learning materials
providing
learning materials
Mixing
learning
materials
Using
learning materials
learning materials
policy
make it
discoverable
distribution
and access
the actual
using
development
findability
accessibility
usefulness
Process architecture

7. Schools Suppliers
Standards to facilitate “Findability”
• NL-LOM (Dutch application profile IEEE-LOM)
• Price information (extra set of metadata)
• OBK (Dutch datamodel of educational concepts)
selecting
learning materials
make it
discoverablefindability
Public broker service
• EduRep

8. SuppliersSchools
Standards to facilitate “Accessibility”
• ECK standard “Distribution and Access”
A description of webservices about:
• Accounts, Profile data, Orders, Distribution, Payment, Licenses and
Product lists
providing
learning materials
distribution
and accessaccessibility
Public broker service
• Entree & Kennisnet Federation

9. Schools
Suppliers
Standards to facilitate “Usefulness”
• UWLR (Dutch standard, exchange of student results)
• OBK (semantic datamodel of educational concepts)
• NL-LOM (Dutch application profile IEEE-LOM)
Mixing
learning materials
the use of
learning materials
the actual
usingusefulness

10. Standardization & Application profile process
Research Development Testing Evaluation
Modification
Registration
Administration
Communication Support Adoption strategy

11. Governance model, public private partnership
Strategic level
Tactical level
Operational level

12. • Relationships between methods and OER
• Agreement on the exchange of test questions
• Agreement on the exchange of learning outcomes
• Agreements regarding the distribution and access of digital
learning material
• Agreement on ownership and provenance of metadata.
The Results