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| October
1-3, 2002 |
Educause 2002 Conference – Atlanta, GA
O.K.I. offers a series of informational presentations
to the educational technology community.
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| August 8, 9, 2002 |
Learning Management
System Summit II - Snowmass, CO
Two day meeting continuing discussions on educational
tool development and its relationship to the O.K.I. framework.
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| August 7, 2002 |
O.K.I. Advisory
Council Meeting - Snowmass, CO
Continued discussion on important long-term issues
in the O.K.I. project.
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| July 17-19, 2002 |
O.K.I. Developers
Meeting - Cambridge, MA
Discussions focus on implementations of the Common
Service API's and conceptual issues involved in the Educational Service
layer.
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| June 2002 |
Demo Application
development
Development of demo applications begins to highlight
the innovative elements of O.K.I. Common Services (Filing, Hierarchy).
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| May 20, 2002 |
Blackboard adopts O.K.I.
Blackboard announces its intention to adopt its architectural standards
to O.K.I. architectural specifications.
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| April 29 - May 3,
2002 |
IMS Global Learning
Consortium Meeting at MIT
The IMS Global Learning Consortium hosts its quarterly
meeting and Open Technical Forums in Cambridge, MA.
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| April
2002 |
Stellar / O.K.I. rewrite begins
MIT begins work on adapting several of the O.K.I. common
service API's to its Stellar Learning Management System Upcoming Events.
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| March
2002 |
Begin phased release of O.K.I. Common Service API specifications
(version 0.9)
During the month of March, the O.K.I. Development Team approves the
release of several Common Service API's (DBC, Shared, Authentication,
Authorization, Logging, LUID) and associated documentation. See the specs »
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| February
16-19, 2002 |
O.K.I. Developers Meeting - Key West, FL
Continued development in O.K.I. architecture, including additional discussion
around O.K.I. Learning Asset and O.K.I. Component layer.
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| Dec 3,
2001 |
O.K.I. Common Services Draft API's published for limited
release
The Common Service API's are available to extended partners for comment
in preparation for public release in February.
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| Nov 15,
2001 |
O.K.I./ADL/IMS presentation at IMS Open Tech Forum,
Stanford, CA
Presentation of O.K.I. project to general IMS community, including the
commercial education technology sector, around needs for common architectural
directions and specifications.
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| Nov 12-14,
2001 |
O.K.I. Developers Meeting - Stanford, CA
This meeting marks the beginning of planning around "component" services
APIs and further fleshing out of the
various service related requirements for defining the "Learning
Asset" object model within O.K.I..
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| Oct
29, 2001 |
O.K.I. Advisory Group Meeting - EDUCAUSE, Indianapolis
IN
Update on O.K.I. project is reported to O.K.I. Advisory
Group. Strategic issues are discussed; broad affirmation
and support for O.K.I. direction, scope, progress, and deliverables.
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| Oct 15-16,
2001 |
EALP Educational Tool Definition Workshop - Cambridge,
MA
O.K.I.'s EALP Team organizes meeting among representatives from 25 institutions
to focus and prioritize O.K.I. project scope around the immediate needs
for education applications, and further define the scope of content management
services.
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| Sept
24-28, 2001 |
O.K.I. Developers Meeting - Cambridge, MA
Continued collaborative development discussions for O.K.I. Common Services
model and associated API's.
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| Sept
2001 |
MIT's Stellar and Stanford's Coursework pilots deployed
After successful design and development phases, Stellar and Coursework
are deployed in support of select MIT & Stanford departments. Planning
begins for campus-wide support by Fall 2002.
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| Aug 29-30,
2001 |
O.K.I./IMS/ADL Developers Meeting - Pittsburgh, PA
Technical representatives from O.K.I., IMS and ADL meet to build common,
high-level, understanding of architectural needs for educational applications
and learning systems design.
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| Aug
23, 2001 |
O.K.I./IMS/ADL Architecture Panel Discussion - Ottawa,
ON
Initial IMS Technical Forum discussion introducing architectural issues
and approaches being considered by O.K.I., IMS and ADL.
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| July 11,
2001 |
O.K.I./IMS/ADL Press Release
O.K.I./IMS/ADL announce their intention to cooperate towards accelerating
the development and deployment of innovative and practical online learning
tools, systems and techniques.
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| July
2-3, 2001 |
O.K.I. Developers Meeting - Cambridge, MA
Initial review of O.K.I. design philosophy; discussion of O.K.I. layered
framework and APIs. Review of evolving scope documents.
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| June
11-12, 2001 |
Core Collaborators Meeting - Cambridge, MA
Strategic discussions with core collaborating institutions to assure
the alignment of O.K.I. project scope with institutional needs.
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| May
2001 |
O.K.I. architectural design begins
MIT architectural team lays the groundwork for flexible and extensible
systems framework.
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| April
30, 2001 |
Core Collaborator Meeting - Cambridge, MA
O.K.I. hosts an introductory session immediately following the Summit
to give collaborative partners a better sense of mutual and individual
goals for involvement with O.K.I..
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| April
27-28, 2001 |
Learning Management Systems Summit - Cambridge, MA
O.K.I. organizes a summit among leading institutional and commercial
educational technology developers; O.K.I. invites 60 prominent academics,
developers, instructional designers, and information technologists to
devise a list of critical design attributes for online support of teaching
and learning.
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| February
2001 |
MIT and Stanford each begin internal development of
learning management systems for Autumn deployment.
MIT's Stellar and Stanford's Coursework are "production prototypes" to
better understand the requirements for technology - enhanced teaching
and learning.
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| January
1, 2001 |
Mellon funding granted
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides start-up funds for a initial
two-year period of O.K.I. development.
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