EDUPUB Agenda (updated with links to presentations)
DAY 1 October 29
08.30-09.00 Registration & Coffee
09.00-09.10 Welcome and logistics
Markus Gylling, CTO IDPF
Paul Belfanti, Director Pearson Content Architecture, Content Mgmt Services
09.10-09.30 Keynote
Dr. Dan Cooper, SVP Content Mgmt Services, Pearson North America [presentation]
Theme 1: Educational Interoperability Landscape
Theme Moderator - Rob Abel, Ed.D, CEO IMS
In the modern e-learning environment, several standards and protocols need to interoperate to create the context in which institutions, teachers, and students can interoperably utilize the environment with maximum efficiency. Which are the standards available today for describing and connecting the various components of an e-learning environment, and how are they evolving? How does an ebook "connect" with the surrounding context to become integrated with a range of learning environments? How will e-books be shared, launched and enabled for analytics across a wide variety of use cases? These and many other related questions will be answered in this session, where experts in the field will discuss and demonstrate the current state of affairs, and identify areas where further development may be needed to enable full interoperability.
09.30-10.15 Panel: The big picture of educational content and data
Panelists:
Rob Abel, CTO IMS
Dr. Larry Fruth, Exec Director SIF
Dr.Yasuhisa Tamura, Professor Sophia University
David Ashman, VP & Chief Architect, Blackboard
Wayne Ostler, VP Assessment & Information, Pearson
Presentations
10.15 - 10.35 CourseSmart
Role of open standards in creating personalized adaptive learning environments
Ambi Desaraju, Product Manager
Nani Jansen, Coordinator [presentation]
10.35 – 10.55 Vital Source
Outcome returns in the context of an electronic textbook
John Tibbetts, Integration Architect [presentation]
10.55 – 11.15 Inkling
Structured Content and Metadata
Rob Cromwell, Co-founder, VP
11.15 – 11.35 Break
11.35 – 11.55 Carson- Dellosa
EPUB 3 fixed layout ebook
Steve Griffin, CTO [presentation]
11.55 – 12.15 Blackboard
Standardized set of metrics to be used as analytics for textbooks
David Ashman, VP & Chief Architect, Blackboard [presentation]
12.15 – 13.00 Theme discussion & summary lead by Rob Abel
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch provided
Theme 2: Rich and Interactive Content
Theme moderator- Bill McCoy, Exec Director IDPF
With the ability to use the full power of the Open Web Platform in ebooks, virtually endless possibilities arise in terms of creating new and enriched reading experiences. How are these features best deployed pedagogically in the education realm, now and in the future? This session will discuss challenges and opportunities that publishers face today with regards to the production and integration of rich and interactive content.
14.00 – 14.20 Introduction by Bill McCoy
Presentations
14.20 – 14.40 Sophia University
Collection of User Requirements and Linkage to Standard Specifications
Dr.Yasuhisa Tamura, Professor [presentation]
14.40 – 15.00 O’Reilly Media
Automating Workflows for Mathematical Equation Processing and Rendering
Sanders Kleinfeld, Publishing Tech engineer [presentation]
15.00 - 15.20 Imagineering
WebGL API
Mike O’Hanlon, VP [presentation]
15.20 - 15.50 break
Presentations, cont’d
15.50- 16.10 Google + Benetech
The Need for a Library of Open Source Accessible Interactive EPUB 3 Widgets
TV Raman, Research Scientist Google+
Gerardo Capiel, VP Engineering Benetech [presentation]
16.10- 16.30 Metrodigi
“Super Widgets”
Ron Severdia, CTO [presentation]
16.30 – 16.50 CETIS
Embedding QTI assessment in EPUB 3; balancing effectiveness with robustness
Wilbert Kraan, Program Support and Development [presentation]
16.50 - 17.30 Theme Discussion & Summary lead by Bill McCoy
17.30-17.45 Summary of the day
Key points for moving forward
Markus Gylling & Paul Belfanti
18.00 Wine and Cheese Reception - sponsored by Metrodigi and CourseSmart
DAY 2 October 30
08.30-08.40 Day 2 Introduction
Markus Gylling & Paul Belfanti
08.40-09.00 Keynote Dr Jeff Jaffe, CEO W3C [presentation]
Theme 3: Accessibility
Theme Moderator- Markus Gylling, CTO IDPF
Which are the current and upcoming challenges and opportunities that publishers and solution providers face when it comes to accessible educational e-publishing? What is needed in terms of metadata standards to describe publication and client accessibility properties? How are technologies and best practices evolving for making STEM and other rich interactive content accessible? Are there really any significant differences between web and long-form e-publication accessibility? In this session, ongoing efforts for establishing a naturally accessible e-learning environment will be reviewed, and experts in the field will point out the most critical areas for further work.
Presentations
9.00 – 9.20 Pearson Education
Creating accessible fixed layout EPUB 3 for schools and colleges
Dr Gerald Schmidt, Acting Senior Platform Manager,
ebooks-Pearson Schools and Colleges, UK [presentation]
9.20 – 9.40 NCAM
Ensuring Accessible Multimedia in EPUB Documents
Geoff Freed, WGBH
9.40 – 10.00 LRMI + Benetech
LRMI and Accessibility Metadata for Discovery of Accessible Ed Resources
Michael Jay, Education Systemics and LRMI
Gerardo Capiel, VP Benetech [presentation]
10.00 – 10.20 AMAC
Accessibility as the Key to Etextbook Integration
Robert Martinengo, Publishing Services [presentation]
10.20 – 10.40 Wolfram
Standardizing Textual Descriptions of Interactive Graphics
Kyle Keane, PhD Research Programmer [presentation]
10.40 – 11.00 Break
11.00-11.40 Panel: Essential issues for accessible e-learning
Panelists:
George Kerscher, President DAISY
Judy Brewer, WAI Domain Lead W3C
Madeleine Rothberg, WGBH & IMS
Gerardo Capiel, VP Benetech
Mark Hakkinen, ETS
Theme 4: Production Workflows
Theme Moderator -Paul Belfanti
There’s a lot of uncertainty within the educational publishing community today over whether standards can be supported broadly and consistently enough across the industry to produce rich, interactive content in a cost-effective manner and deliver that content to multiple platforms that support these rich experiences. Publishers hesitate to make the investment in developing interactive content because eReaders and distribution platforms don’t support advanced features or EPUB 3. Device makers and eReader developers hesitate to invest in platforms that support advanced features when they don’t see publishers producing content using standards like EPUB 3, etc.. In this session we will present real examples of production workflows that demonstrate the efficiency and versatility of standards-based content development, assembly, delivery, and presentation, along with existing tools that address issues like authoring,
11.40-11.50 Theme Introduction Paul Belfanti
Presentation
11.50 – 12.30 Pearson, Inkling, Nook Media
David Stroup, Content Architect Pearson
Dan Haynam, Implementation Mgr Inkling
Will Manis, Software Architect Nook Media [presentation]
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Presentations, cont’d
13.30 – 13.50 Pubcoder
Digital Workflows with ‘killer features’
Paolo Albert, CTO & Founder [presentation]
13:50 – 14.10 Versapub
Collaborative Media Platform
Steve Patzer & Jon Nathan [presentation]
14;10 -14.30 Harvard Business Publishing
Challenges in EPUB Production
Lisa Post & Amanda Comperchio [presentation]
14.30- 14.50 Evident Point
Converting Static Textbooks to Interactive
Dr. Philip Mansfield [presentation]
14.50- 15.10 Theme Discussion & Summary lead by Paul Belfanti
15.10-15.25 Break
15.25-16.15 Plenary: Key Work Areas moving forward
Moderated by the theme moderators:
Rob Abel, Bill McCoy, Markus Gylling, Paul Belfanti [presentation]
16.15-16.30 Closing Remarks by Dr. Dan Cooper [presentation]