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Partner with 1EdTech to Transform your Digital Ecosystem

 

Advancing a Technology Ecosystem
that Supports the Growing Needs of Learners

Now more than ever, creating and sustaining a connected, secure technology infrastructure is essential. At 1EdTech, leaders from institutions across the country are collaborating to enable interoperability through open standards to serve as the foundation of your edtech ecosystem. Through a truly integrated infrastructure, you have the potential to personalize learning, secure student privacy, engage students in lifelong learning, and leverage the power of learning analytics. 

Design a Connected and Trusted Ecosystem

Reduce your edtech debt and streamline your tool management with the TrustEd™ Apps Program.

 

Issue Verifiable Student Learning Achievements

Empowering learners to share achievements how and where they want using 1EdTech's open standards for digital credentials.
 

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Create a Data Informed Culture

Improve student learning outcomes and your institution's strategic plan by unlocking meaningful data.

 

Innovate Digital Learning

Personalize teaching and learning with AI and other emerging tools that can impact student success while balancing privacy, security and ethics.

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Edtech You Can Trust to Be Easy, Meaningful, and Safe

As a community, 1EdTech aims to support teaching and learning in all educational environments. We know educators need tools and systems that can evolve along with their ever-changing challenges. The TrustEd Apps Program helps you build an open, trusted, and innovative digital learning ecosystem at every level.

1EdTech offers the TrustEd Apps Program, which consists of four components: the TrustEd Apps Pledge, TrustEd Apps Product Vetting & Certification, TrustEd Apps Management Suite, and the TrustEd Apps Certified Leader Program.

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TrustEd Apps Pledge

Make open standards the first choice for plug-and-play integrations.
 

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TrustEd Apps Vetting and Certification

Streamline, scale, and secure your digital ecosystem.
 

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TrustEd Apps Management Suite

 Curated edtech apps validated for privacy and integration.

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​​​​TrustEd Apps Certified Leader Program

Become a pro at implementing 1EdTech open standards. 

 

TrustEd Apps Readiness Assessment
Ensure Your Edtech Supports Your Mission to Serve Students

TrustEd Apps Readiness is an approach to selecting, acquiring, implementing and sustaining technology applications that work together, are secure, accessible and share information to support continuous improvement as well as learning and operational efficiencies. Conduct your technology audit today.

Download the TrustEd Apps Readiness Assessment
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Issue Verifiable Student Learning Achievements

Digital credentials with open standards from the 1EdTech community are learner-controlled, skills-based, and always interoperable. This helps make lifelong achievements more shareable and secure without custom integrations, saving you time and resources and accelerating your digital transformation.

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Learning happens at every stage of the journey.

A personalized digital record that shows and tells a wide range of valuable experiences and accomplishments related to the context of learning.

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The digital way to award accomplishments.

Digital recognition of accomplishments embedded with verifiable and secure metadata.

 

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Building a Learning and Employment Ecosystem With 1EdTech Standards

Powering Microcredential Value and Trust

1EdTech's TrustEd Microcredential Coalition unites higher ed, edtech suppliers, and K-12 leaders to unlock the full potential of microcredentials for learners, educators, and employers. Explore our new metadata framework for issuing organizations to use. It enhances the Open Badges standard with key data requirements for two new credential types.

TrustEd Microcredential Coalition
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Create a Data Informed Culture

Transform your edtech ecosystem with 1EdTech open standards to empower faculty, administrators, and edtech suppliers with meaningful data and powerful insights to improve student learning outcomes and achieve your institution's strategic goals.

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The data to evaluate your edtech tools.

Capture digital learning tool use, gather deeper insights into the learning process, and understand ROI.

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Gather student activity data to boost learning.

Collect click-stream data from all digital resources to measure learning activities and effectiveness.

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Standardize your data exchange.

The most efficient way to share SIS data with your entire campus digital ecosystem.

 

1EdTech Open Standards Connect Your Ecosystem

 

Innovate Digital Learning 

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools and systems are impacting the education landscape—presenting opportunities and challenges for institutions, faculty, students, and professional staff. 1EdTech's AI Preparedness Checklist provides institutions with guiding prompts for establishing protocols, policies, and best practices for using AI.

1EdTech's AI Preparedness Checklist
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Advance Your Strategy and the Greater Good
1EdTech Member Benefits

 

 

 

 

 

 

1EdTech Membership for Higher Education

Here are some key reasons why institutions join the 1EdTech community.

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Save Time and Money

Access the Trusted Apps Management Suite to organize and provide transparency into edtech tools that are already vetted, procured and used across your institution to remove duplication, tech debt and support the purchase of new tools.

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Expertise and Professional Learning

Connect with other innovative leaders nationwide and globally through 1EdTech working groups and other community meetings to influence and shape edtech expectations for the future.

Leadership, Committees, Networks, and Task Forces

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Access and Design Best Practices

Drive innovation, unlock your data for improvement, and be recognized for the impactful contributions you are making to the field of education and your mission to serve all learners.

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Wait. You're Not a 1EdTech Member?

Saving time and money, leveraging expertise, and gaining access to best practices are just a few of the advantages 1EdTech higher education members cultivate daily. Whatever the size of your college, university, or state system, we all have an essential part to play in shaping the future of teaching and learning.

Great Benefits the Moment You Come on Board
1EdTech Membership

 


 

1EdTech Community Events and Activities

1EdTech events are opportunities to learn, share, and network with academic and technical leaders. Our continuous commitment fuels our spirit to meet the growing demands of today's learners and be ready to face tomorrow.

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In-Person Conferences

Keep ahead of the curve by attending and sponsoring various 1EdTech in-person events across the country and the globe.

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Member Meetings

Roll-up your sleeves with other 1EdTech members on projects with clear milestones and deliverables.

 

 

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1EdTech at Events

See and gain valuable insights from our 1EdTech experts and members leading discussions and workshops.

 

We're Always Happy to Help

As an educational leader, you’re tasked with transforming a wide variety of edtech software tools, curriculum resources, and applications into a data-rich learning ecosystem that shows ROI. We know it’s a heavy lift. Please don't hesitate to reach out.

Have Questions? We Have Answers.
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Leverage Our Partnerships and Collaborations

Our community advances innovative work across six workstreams, which support four strategic imperatives. These imperatives and workstreams in various combinations help educators and edtech suppliers advance what's happening across the education landscape today while preparing for tomorrow. It's how together we power learner potential.

Imperatives and Workstreams
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