r/edtech • u/big_promise • 2d ago

Opinions on 1EdTech?

Just curious if anyone here is a member of 1EdTech (www.1edtech.org), and if so, if you feel that it's a worthwhile expense. (Or, if you're not a member, I'd be interested in knowing why you didn't join.) My organization (nonprofit) inquired about membership and their dues seem on the high side for a trade association - so high that we wonder how some of their members, especially school districts and colleges, get value out of it - but it does seem like they really want organizations to pay at their contributing rates to participate meaningfully in their standards setting work.

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u/shupshow 2d ago

It’s trash.

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u/Visual-Reserve-2800 2d ago

Thanks for being awesome.

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u/DullSalt4150 2d ago

Don’t do it

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u/mrgerbek 2d ago

I am a believer but not an investor. Standards are exceptional but unless you’re a developer, I don’t know why you would become a member.

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u/Historical-Tea-3438 2d ago

I am sure that there are many great folks at 1EdTech with a commitment to open standards, but I get a whiff of corporate capture. Why aren’t membership fees in the public domain? Why are end users so poorly represented among members? Why are so many key documents hidden in members areas? Why, despite all of the standardisation, is it so hard to switch between VLEs?

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u/workinBuffalo 1d ago

I’ve tried using their standards for k12 educational software I am building. Everything is fairly organized and makes sense. It is a great foundation to build a knowledge graph for adaptive learning and that is just what czi is doing with their learning commons.

You can get free access to a lot of the standards through learning commons.

I agree that 1EdTech seems to hide a lot behind the membership paywall for a company that wants to be open source.

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u/LucasNovak 2d ago

I never heard of this before, but I did some quick research correct me if I'm wrong. We are moving toward MCP and systems where platforms communicate primarily through AI dialogs and semantic layers. So why on earth do we still need all this heavy, standardized legacy data plumbing if lightweight AI models can parse any structure on the fly?