EdMatrix

SIF Data Model: Data model for representing and transmitting educational information.

SIF Infrastructure: Protocol for transmitting educational information.

ACT Holistic Framework: To help people navigate these shifts from kindergarten to career (K–Career), ACT has created a holistic framework for understanding education and work readiness, navigating life’s transition points, and achieving success.

Sharable Content Object Reference Model: A format for developing and publishing reusable digital learning resources for use in learning management systems and other learning environments.

Experience API: A protocol for reporting and tracking learning activities and student experiences.

Next Generation Science Standards: A set of standards and competency framework for science education. Adopted by several states.

Blockcerts is an open standard for creating, issuing, viewing, and verifying blockchain-based certificates. These digital records are registered on a blockchain, cryptographically signed, tamper-proof, and shareable. The goal is to enable a wave of innovation that gives individuals the capacity to possess and share their own official records.

Universal Design for Learning: A framework to optimize teaching and learning based on learning science and in support of students of all abilities.

Common Core State Standards: Competency standards for English Language Arts - Literacy and Mathematics for K-12. Adopted by many U.S. States.

Credential Transparency Description Language: Enables rich description of credential-related resources related (linked) to other entities in the credentialing ecosystem. Described resources include assessments, learning opportunities, requirements, costs, and conceptual frameworks. Resource descriptions support labor market outcomes, education and career pathways, and employer preferences.

Learning Resource Metadata Initiative: A set of metadata terms for describing learning resources and their relationship to standards or competencies. The LRMI terms are incorporated into Schema.org Creative Work.

Europass Learning Model captures the results of any non-formal and formal learning across Europe, as well as the validation of non-formal and informal learning. It is designed to provide a single format to describe certificates of attendance, examination results, degrees and diplomas, diploma supplements, professional certifications, employer recommendations and any other kind of claims that are related to learning.

JSON: A lightweight text-based format for data interchange. Forms the basis for many educational data serialization formats.

The Ed-Fi Assessment Outcomes API describes a REST API surface to enable exchange of assessment metadata and student assessment results between disparate and geographically separated systems operated by different organizations.

The Ed-Fi Core Student Data API standard describes a REST API surface that covers the core data domains typically managed by student information systems in K–12 education. These standards can be used to drive analysis of student performance, both alone and in combination with data from other systems.

The Ed-Fi Data Standard is a common model providing the data elements and serialization formats on which all other Ed-Fi data systems are based.

The Ed-Fi Enrollment API describes a set of read-only REST APIs for transfer of basic student and teacher demographic data and enrollment data for K–12 education. The API is intended to allow source systems to provide the basic data needed to provision a broad range of online teaching and learning applications.

EPUB for Education: A profile of the IDPF EPUB standard for digital book publishing targeted at education.

Learning Object Metadata: A schema for metadata that describes learning objects and resources.

HyperText Transfer Protocol: Standard protocol for transmitting content and data on the internet. The world-wide web and many data exchange protocols are based on HTTP.

Competencies & Academic Standards Exchange: A standard format for representing competency frameworks such as state standards, learning objectives, etc.

IMS Caliper Analytics: A protocol for transmitting and collecting learning events for later analysis.

IMS Common Cartridge: A content packaging standard for course materials.

IMS Content Packaging: A format for packaging content and associated metadata for exchange between educational systems.

IMS Learning Tools Interoperability: A protocol that enables a learning management system to incorporate custom learning tools or experiences offered by another system.

Open Badge Infrastructure: A format for communicating skills and achievements.

OneRoster: A protocol and format for secure exchange of class roster information between applications.

IMS Question and Test Interoperability: A content packaging format for questions (assessment items) and tests. QTI 3.0 incorporates the accessibility features formerly defined in IMS APIP.

The ISTE Standards are a framework of practice for technology-supported learning. They include standards for students, educators, leaders, and coaches.

MedBiquitous Activity Report: Activity Report allows organizations to electronically compile continuing education (CE) and Maintenance of Certification certificate data across providers, making it easier to track lifelong learning and improvement.

MedBiquitous Competency Framework: The Competency Framework allows competencies and learning outcomes to be used as the backbone of education and performance management systems, enabling users to search for resources addressing a specific competency and determine where competencies are addressed in the curriculum.

MedBiquitous Curriculum Inventory: Curriculum Inventory facilitates the exchange and aggregation of data about health professions curriculum across the continuum of professional education and training. It enables the aggregation of curriculum data for research and benchmarking.

MedBiquitous Educational Achievement: The Educational Achievement standard facilitates the exchange of data about a learner’s achievements and competencies across the continuum of professional education. It includes the ability to document entrustment decisions and achievement of milestones.

MedBiquitous Healthcare Learning Object Metadata: Healthcare Learning Object Metadata (Healthcare LOM) provides a standard way to describe learning activities and content, making it possible to maximize the value of your content and connect to the broader community of healthcare educators.

MedBiquitous Education Metrics: MedBiquitous Metrics (officially known as Medical Education Metrics [MEMS]) provides a standard format for continuing education (CE) outcomes data, allowing educators to bring outcomes data together across systems and organizations for better research.

MedBiquitous Performance Framework: The Performance Framework standard allows one to represent expected levels of performance related to a competency in a standard format. Performance frameworks can then be referenced from other data to make learner performance data portable and easily understood across a learner’s career.

MedBiquitous Healthcare Professional Profile: The Healthcare Professional Profile provides a standard format for profile data on healthcare professionals, making it easier to exchange and compile data across organizations.

MedBiquitous Virtual Patient: Virtual Patients are interactive computer programs that simulate real life clinical scenarios for educational purposes. The MedBiquitous Virtual Patient standard (MVP) enables the exchange of virtual patients across systems and institutions.

Electronic Data Interchange: An older data transmission standard. In education, the principal use is exchange of student transcript data between institutions.

PESC Academic Record: Uses Core Main. Includes information that would appear on a transcript including test score reporting.

PESC Admissions Record: Uses Core Main. Includes admissions specific information.

PESC Core Main: Base information related to core data related to the person, course, and grade. Serves as the foundation for all other PESC standards.

PESC Common Credential for Certificates, Degrees and Diplomas: An XML Data Standard to be used by any organization, college, university, school, district, state, province, and/or service provider to fully communicate degrees, certifications and other similar credentials obtained by the student.

PESC ePortfolio: The Academic ePortolio schema facilitates the transmission of eportfolio data from one eportfolio system to another.

Educational or Occupational Credential: A diploma, academic degree, certification, qualification, badge, etc., that may be awarded to a person or other entity that meets the requirements defined by the credentialer. Developed and submitted to Schema.org by the W3C EOC Community Group.

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: A U.S. Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.

Section 508 Accessibility Requirements: U.S Federal Government Requirements for accessibility of IT applications.

Common Education Data Standards: Data Dictionary and Logical Data Model for representing educational data of all sorts.

HyperText Markup Language: Standard format for web content. Many applications and standards make use of HTML format content.

Web Contnet Accessibility Guidelines: A set of guidelines for ensuring that web content is accessibe to people with disabilities.

EXtensible Markup Language: A common format for representing digital content and data. Many educational data formats are based on XML.