The Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE), developed by 1EdTech, is a standard that streamlines the digital sharing and organization of academic frameworks, learning outcomes, skills, and competencies across educational systems. It converts traditional static formats into a structured, machine-readable model, making it easier for platforms like learning management systems (LMS), assessment tools, and curriculum software to align educational content with defined standards and goals. The latest version, CASE 1.1, uses a RESTful API to enable real-time updates and integration, ensuring that educators and institutions can connect skills and competencies to broader educational frameworks and workforce needs. By fostering interoperability, CASE supports mapping curricula, tagging resources, and tracking student progress, enhancing the focus on learning outcomes and skill development in digital education environments.
Common Cartridge is a technical standard designed to enable the seamless packaging, distribution, and interoperability of digital learning content and assessments across various educational platforms. It defines a structured format that encapsulates resources such as HTML files, multimedia, quizzes, and metadata within a single ZIP file, adhering to a single manifest file that describe the content and how to consume it. This allows content creators, publishers, and institutions to export and import course materials efficiently between Learning Management Systems (LMS) and other tools, ensuring consistent rendering and functionality. By supporting features like rich media integration, assessment interoperability, and metadata for discoverability, Common Cartridge enhances the portability and reusability of educational resources, making it a vital standard for streamlining content management and delivery in digital learning environments across Europe and globally.
The goal of the Ed-Fi Alliance is to drive national adoption of the Ed-Fi Data Standard — a common language that allows education technology systems to securely exchange data from multiple sources. The data standard empowers educators and administrators by providing a comprehensive view of all data. It enables a clear understanding of student progress, informs instructional decisions, and supports the achievement of desired learning outcomes.
A data standard is a set of rules for collecting, managing, and organizing educational data that allows multiple systems to seamlessly and securely share actionable information.
Edu-API is the latest in the 1EdTech family of academic enterprise specifications. Driving off the comprehensive modeling of Learning Information Services (LIS) and leveraging the extensive history and experience of past efforts like OneRoster® and LTI®, Edu-API allows for the standardized exchange of data between the transactional systems that manage higher education administration and teaching and learning. That means not only increased efficiency on campus but also the facilitation of the development of a new generation of smart, sustainable apps, personalized based on data about the student shared in a secure and responsible way.
The Higher Education Reference Models (HERM) provide standardised business, data, application and technology architectures that communicate a generalised view of how higher education institutions are organised and the information they use. The HERM also includes a Business Model Canvas to support scenario-based planning and for exploring and communicating an institution’s specific strategic drivers and goals.
These resources can be used by institutions within higher education in a variety of ways, such as a starter kit to accelerate an institution’s business and data architecture, a reference point to explore commonalities and differentiators for the institution, and a communication tool to engage stakeholders.
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), a technical standard developed by the 1EdTech Consortium, seamlessly connects external learning tool - like apps, assessments, or content - with platforms such as learning management systems (LMS). Finalized and adopted globally across K-12, and higher education, LTI enhances teaching and learning environments by enabling secure, single sign-on access without separate logins. It supports robust data exchange about users, their roles, and institutional enrollment, fostering an efficient, interconnected edtech ecosystem worldwide. The standard continues to evolve, with 16 extension specifications refining its capabilities.
Broad set of standards to support the educational development of health professionals. Activity Report, Competency Framework, Curriculum Inventory, Educational Achievement, etc etc
OneRoster, developed by 1EdTech, is a standardized specification designed to facilitate the secure and efficient exchange of roster-related data, course information, and academic performance metrics within K-12/ Primary/ Secondary educational environments. It establishes a structured data model encompassing entities such as users (students and instructors), courses, enrolments, organizational hierarchies, and grade records, ensuring robust interoperability between disparate systems like Student Information Systems (SIS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS). The current iteration, OneRoster 1.2, provides three modular services—Rostering, Gradebook, and Assessment Results—delivered through a RESTful API with JSON payloads or as CSV files for bulk data transfer, allowing institutions to adopt specific components as required. By leveraging these services, OneRoster automates data synchronization, enhances data integrity, and supports real-time updates, serving as a critical framework for integrating heterogeneous edtech solutions and optimizing digital learning ecosystems across European contexts and beyond.
Broad set of standards to support the educational development of health professionals:
Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) is a technical standard that facilitates the creation, exchange, and delivery of assessments, quizzes, and test items focused on learning outcomes, skills, and competencies across educational platforms. It incorporates a structured format to define diverse question types—such as multiple-choice, essays, or interactive tasks—along with scoring rules, feedback, and metadata, ensuring consistent performance in learning management systems (LMS) and assessment tools. QTI integrates support for Access For All and Personal Needs and Preferences, enabling personalized accessibility adjustments—like accommodations for visual, auditory, or motor impairments—aligned with individual learner needs and broader educational frameworks. Deployed heavily worldwide for high-stakes assessment scenarios, QTI ensures equitable access and fairness, allowing educators to align assessments with curriculum goals, share interoperable content, and effectively measure skill development in diverse, inclusive digital testing environments.
Thin Common Cartridge (TCC), an extension of the Common Cartridge standard by 1EdTech, is a lightweight specification focused on enabling interoperability between Learning Management Systems (LMS) and external learning tools by embedding references to content rather than the content itself. Built on the IMS Content Packaging framework, TCC provides a manifest file to define a minimal structure that includes metadata and web links (typically via HTTPS) to resources hosted elsewhere, such as quizzes, activities, or multimedia, without requiring the full packaging of assets into a ZIP file. It integrates seamlessly with the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard, allowing single sign-on and contextual launches of external tools while passing basic user and course data. This streamlined approach reduces file size, simplifies content updates, and enhances flexibility, making TCC a key standard for connecting distributed educational resources and tools efficiently in modern digital learning ecosystems.