1EdTech Glossary

RFCs are produced by the IETF and cover many aspects of computer networking. They describe the Internet's technical foundations, such as addressing, routing, and transport technologies. RFCs also specify protocols like TCP, IP, etc. that are used to deliver services used by billions of people every day, such as real-time collaboration, email, and the domain name system. Only some RFCs are standards. Depending on their maturity level and what they cover, RFCs are labeled with different statuses: Internet Standard, Proposed Standard, Best Current Practice, Experimental, Informational, and Historic.

Requests for Proposals (RFP) are documents that identify a need and ask organizations to respond by explaining their solution, its cost, and their qualifications.  1EdTech provides numerous resources to help with creating RFPs, for more information see Require 1EdTech Certification When Purchasing EdTech Products.

The 1EdTech Resource List Interoperability (RLI) standard details how structured metadata can be exchanged between systems that store and expose resources. It is used to create resource lists and gather and organize those resource lists for educational or training purposes. A typical example of such a resource list is a reading list. This standard was published in July 2004. At present, there are no known implementations of this standard.

One of the Metric Profiles defined in the 1EdTech Caliper Standard. The Caliper Resource Management Profile models a person managing a digital resource.

One of the core services in the 1EdTech OneRoster standard. This service is used to identify the set of learning and teaching resources that are required by a Class, Course, and/or User (the information about the Class, Course, and User would have been supplied using the 1EdTech OneRoster Rostering Service). The defined web service takes the form of JSON payloads exchanged by the communicating systems. This service uses the identifier for the resource. The resource could be obtained using systems/tools/applications that use the 1EdTech Common Cartridge/Thin Common Cartridge specification. At present this service is used extensively in the K-12/schools education sector.

The 1EdTech standard that provides a means to create common understandings of competencies that appear as part of a learning or career plan, as learning pre-requisites, or as learning outcomes. The information model in this specification can be used to exchange these definitions between learning systems, human resource systems, learning content, competency or skills repositories, and other relevant systems. This standard provides unique references to descriptions of competencies or objectives for inclusion in other information models. This work was adopted any the IEEE to become the IEEE Standard for Learning Technology-Data Model for Reusable Competency Definitions (IEEE 1484.20.1-2007). The original 1EdTech RDCEO standard was published in October, and this has been succeeded by the 1EdTech Competency and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) standard (published in 2017).

One of the core services in the 1EdTech OneRoster standard. This service is used for the exchange of rostering information i.e. the enrollment of Students on Classes. A rich set of data can be exchanged about Users (inc. Students and Teachers) and their Demographics, Classes, Courses, Enrollments, Academic Sessions (inc. Grading Periods and Terms) and Orgs (inc. Schools). The defined web service takes the form of JSON payloads exchanged by the communicating systems. At present this service is used extensively in the K-12/schools education sector.

SOAP (formerly a backronym for Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services. It uses XML for its message format, and relies on application layer protocols, most often Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), for message negotiation and transmission. The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is often used to provide a machine readable form of SOAP-based web services. Some of the earlier 1EdTech service-based specifications, e.g. Learner Information Services (LIS), are WSDL/SOAP based.

one of the Metric Profiles defined in the 1EdTech Caliper Standard. The Caliper Search Profile models an actor—typically a learner—querying a resource for information. The profile provides a search event and a searched action for describing information retrieval activities. An optional search response entity can be employed to describe the query submitted by a user, as well as any information returned as a result of the search.

SSL and its successor, Transport Layer Security (TLS), are protocols for establishing authenticated and encrypted links between networked computers. The SSL protocol was deprecated with the release of TLS 1.0 in 1999, but it is still common to refer to these related technologies as 'SSL' or “SSL/TLS.” The most current version is TLS 1.3, defined in IETF RFC 8446.