TIPO

TAO-based Item Portal

Ingo Barkow, Peter Hunyor and Manish Chawla
TBA21 Group
OPIT Hungary

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Overview

Short presentaBon of the TBA21 Group

EDK Item Bank the basis for TIPO
Live Demo
Upcoming projects

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The TBA21 Group

TBA21 Germany
Spin-o from DIPF German InsBtute for
InternaBonal EducaBonal Research
First TAO-Partner
SoluBon Provider for Survey and Assessment
projects using mulBple soluBons (including TAO)
Head oce of the TBA21 Group
Owner of OPIT Hungary, TBA21 New Zealand and
TBA21 North America (more coming soon)
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The TBA21 Group

OPIT Hungary
Independent SoWware Vendor (ISV)
Provides soWware soluBons for TBA21 Group, but
also third-party organizaBons (e.g. outsourcing /
nearshoring of development work)
Own team for TAO adaptaBons
Largest organizaBon within TBA21 Group
Other soWware products: Rogatus (survey system
and data repository), Data Analyzer
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EDK Item Base: History

NaBonal monitoring
ExisBng items (HarmoS)
New items, partly ambiBous
3+ Languages
26 Cantons
Complex rights management
Country-wide online delivery
Non-IT users

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EDK Item Bank

Technical perspecBve
Repository and portal for all Items
Old, new, and yet unknown item types

Web-portal
Database, metadata
Preview
Workow control
Access control

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Item Bank

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TAO IntegraBon
New Features for TAO due to EDK project
Access control, restricted UI
Extended rules, rights and roles management
Extended search and lter funcBons
Versioning, comments
Metadata model
IntegraBon of CBA Itembuilder items into TAO as a
new item type

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Live Demo
Short presentaBon of some of the features
menBoned before

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Upcoming projects
Work for the EDK lead to further projects proposals
Idea is to build a vendor-agnosBc version of the EDK
portal called TIPO TAO-based item portal
Further develop EDK project into a product

More supported third party systems next to TAO and CBA

Itembuilder (e.g. Stellwerk, Nipo, QuesBfy)
ImplementaBon of more metadata standards (e.g. LOM,
DDI, LTI)
Own branding for product

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Upcoming TIPO projects

Phase 2 of the EDK project
ApplicaBon for LOEWE3 funding (private-public

program from the German state of Hesse) to develop

neutral version
Proposal for an item bank for the NaBonal
EducaBonal Panel Study (NEPS)

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Any Questions?
barkow@tba21.net
hunyor@opit.hu
chawla@opit.hu

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