Outside Event: Data Interoperability in Enterprise Learning Ecosystems

Presented By: Shelly Blake-Plock, President of the Institute for Infrastructure and Interoperable Data in Learning (I2IDL)

Abstract: Data interoperability is more than making sure that systems can connect to one another. In this discussion, we’ll be looking at the processes, policies, software instantiations, and inter-relationships that make interoperability possible in enterprise learning ecosystems. Specifically, we’ll take a look at data standards and the corresponding open source software supporting learning metadata, machine-readable shareable competency definitions, learning activity tracking, and enterprise learner records.

Bio: Shelly has worked at the intersection of learning and technology since 2003. He is a founding board director of I2IDL https://www.i2idl.org/and is CEO of Yet Analytics, an open source software and R&D firm that he co-founded in 2014. He’s worked as a principal investigator on government R&D projects including the DATASIM modeler for at-scale synthetic xAPI data and has been a part of applied R&D in the space of advanced data architecture with US Army Simulation Technology and Training Center, Advanced Distributed Learning, and Air Force Research Laboratory. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE where he has been an officer of the Learning Technologies Standards Committee since 2018. This session is part of the Spring 2026 Online AI Capstone Virtual Speaker Series hosted by the Purdue University Online Capstone Experience. For more information and to learn how to get involved, please reach out at POCapstone@purdue.edu https://www.purdue.edu/online/artificial-intelligence/master-of-science-in-artificial-intelligence-msai-capstone-experience/