1EdTech Glossary

 Badge Extensions for Education, a 1EdTech initiative, augments the Open Badges 2.0 standard with important accreditation and assessment information to help employers and others better understand what was required to earn a badge. Badge Extensions for Education are two optional extensions—Assessment and Accreditation—to the Open Badges standard that allow an Open Badge to contain even more information about the achievement and issuing organization. First, the Assessment extension allows detailed information to be included pertaining to the assessment completed by the badge recipient. The Assessment extension describes the type of assessment (exam, performance, or artifact), whether it was a group assessment with a group evaluation, and information about how the assessment is scored. The Accreditation extension provides a way for the issuing organization to include information about related accreditation bodies, including their name and contact information, accreditation time period, and the accreditor's area of focus. For more information, see 1EdTech's Digital Credentialing Initiative and Digital Credentials and Badges Project Group Activity. Higher Education Institutional Members may be interested in the Digital Credentials & CBE Innovation Leadership Network; for more information see Higher Ed Innovation Leadership Networks.

An individual, or consulting group that builds the CASE frameworks for the Issuer. They translate the issuer’s human-readable standards into the CASE format.

The digital package with a document that includes a list of all the competencies/academic standards (CFitems) for a curricular subject, in sequential order (vertical alignments.) It includes parent-child relationships.

The official entity that owns and generates the source standards. The issuer is the authority who publishes (until now, human-readable) standards. In the case of K12 education, it may be a state’s department of education (DOE/SEA), a Local Education Agency (LEAs), or other organizations that publish K-12 and K-12 PD learning and competency standards. 

The issuer (owner/author) can also be an industry association, other institutions (community colleges, etc.) or a company that offers professional development courses.

The ultimate objective of CASE (1EdTech’s Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange® specification) is to make it easier, more accurate, and less expensive for edtech suppliers to align resources and tools with state and district academic standards, therefore allowing educators to find resources that better support their needs. Before CASE, academic standards were usually officially published in PDF format, forcing institutions and edtech suppliers that needed machine-readable standards to perform time-consuming manual work or use proprietary formats. This increased costs and made it difficult to ensure fidelity (especially when standards were updated).

Now, every issuing agency can author machine-readable CASE versions of their standards using their own CASE publishing tool, allowing each agency to retain complete control over the source of truth for their standards and make this source of truth freely and openly available. The CASE Network serves a key function in the CASE ecosystem, providing a single access point for edtech suppliers to pull standards issued by agencies anywhere in the U.S. and access revision histories of those standards.

CASE Network 2 is available for everyone to browse and search without the need to sign in at casenetwork.1edtech.org. Additional functionality, including API and download access to the machine-readable CASE data for all frameworks, is available to edtech suppliers, educational institutions, and non-commercial entities that request Registered Access to CASE Network 2. Edtech suppliers are asked to pay a nominal annual fee to support the network; educational institutions and non-commercial entities can register at no cost. Learn more about CASE Network.  Learn more about the CASE standard. 

An individual from an organization who has registered to use the CASE Network.

A Unique Resource Identifier that leads the user the the API endpoint. This is the call that allows a system to "ingest" or consume an entire CASE Framework.

Is a URL link that directs the user to the original source (the Issuer's publication of the academic standards and competencies.

CAT is the abbreviation for Computer Adaptive Testing, a standard being developed by 1EdTech. See the definition of Computer Adaptive Testing for more information.

The abbreviation for Common File Format. This is one of the formats addressed by the 1EdTech Interactive White Board/Common File Format specification.