1EdTech is a business ecosystem that has at its foundation trusted educational technology products and trusted interoperable connections that enable high return on digital learning for school districts, higher education institutions, and corporations. The 1EdTech ecosystem spans the multitude of product-specific or institution-specific ecosystems. Initially, 1EdTech is focused on the problems of establishing guaranteed interoperability between rostering systems in K-12 i.e. those systems adopting the IMS OneRoster specification. This service, launched as a limited pilot in May 2019and to be formally launched in late 2020, will change the way in which IMS enables interoperability between OneRoster-based solutions. It builds upon IMS’s sophisticated vendor certification process by enabling detailed analysis of the interoperability capabilities of the systems being used. Ian Weddell, the 1EdTech Program Manager, will give an overview of the aims and objectives of the 1EdTech Service. He will explain how it can be used to improve interoperability between OneRoster-based solutions. Ian will also give insight into how, over the next 12 months, the capabilities of the 1EdTech service will be extended.
