https://pressroom.prlog.org/SIFAssociation/ About Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community - There is no other global community made up of educational policymakers, marketplace product and service providers and the customers they serve, collaborating daily to address real word learning information and resource issues. https://www.prlog.org/12842310-the-student-data-privacy-consortium-sdpc-announces-2020-2021-leadership.html The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a Special Interest Group of the non-profit Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, is proud to announce the Management Board for 2020-2021.Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:50:03 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12839296-the-latest-unity-specification-supports-future-proofing-education-digital-ecosystems.html The Access 4 Learning® (A4L) Community, more than 3,000 members strong, is proud to announce the latest release of the new Unity Specification which provides standardization of learning data, ranging from everything from classroom rostering to federal...Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:47:39 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12826650-a4l-community-delighted-to-welcome-new-zealand-and-publish-the-inaugural-sif-specification-nz.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is delighted to announce New Zealand as our newest global community member.Wed, 17 Jun 2020 08:54:09 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12822996-sdpc-announce-vendor-signatory-badge-program.html The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a special interest group of the non-profit Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, continues their support for the pandemic-driven shift to virtual education by announcing the SDPC Vendor Signatory Badge Program.Tue, 19 May 2020 14:28:12 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12815064-north-american-a4l-community-announce-2020-leadership.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community in North America is proud to announce the North American Management & Technical Boards for 2020.Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:52:50 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12800072-a4l-community-announces-new-partnership-with-hr-open-standards-continued-pesc-alignment.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is proud to announce a new partnership with HR Open Standards to further the development of simplified Human Resources-related data exchanges and a continuation of the partnership with the Post Secondary Electronics..Tue, 26 Nov 2019 16:24:36 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12792955-sdpc-represented-at-ftc-future-of-coppa-workshop.html Steve Smith, co-Founder of the Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) and member of the SDPC Governance Group, was invited to participate in the FTC "Future of COPPA Workshop" held in Washington DC, on October 7, 2019.Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:31:32 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12774405-sdpc-resource-registry-api-released-to-further-the-awareness-of-student-data-privacy.html The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, is proud to announce the release of its API to enable the use of the public information available from the SDPC Resource Registry to...Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:35:35 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12772356-the-only-educational-interoperability-data-standard-with-privacy-controls-baked-in.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, previously the SIF Association, is proud to announce the release of the SIF Infrastructure Implementation Specification 3.3, supporting greater privacy and security controls including the work of the Student Data...Thu, 30 May 2019 10:41:18 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12771194-introducing-unity-the-best-of-the-best-from-20-years-marketplace-interoperability.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, previously the SIF Association, is proud to create a new "buzz" – the best of the best from 20 years of the most widely used interoperability specifications to address school needs and builds towards allowing...Wed, 22 May 2019 16:40:53 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12767837-9-states-now-utilizing-national-privacy-clause-set-from-the-student-data-privacy-consortium.html The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a Special Interest Group of the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, is thrilled to announce that the New Hampshire Alliance has become the ninth state utilizing the collaboratively developed SDPC National Clause.Thu, 02 May 2019 14:04:05 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12760166-8-states-now-utilizing-national-privacy-clause-set-from-the-student-data-privacy-consortium.html The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a Special Interest Group of the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, is thrilled to announce that the Wisconsin Alliance has become the eighth state utilizing the collaboratively developed SDPC National Clause...Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:44:38 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12757581-student-data-privacy-consortium-supports-chromebook-app-hub-providing-transparency-for-developers.html The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a Special Interest Group of the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, is thrilled to support Google for Education's announcement of their Chromebook App Hub Project during SXSW Edu this week.Tue, 05 Mar 2019 15:08:50 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12704740-access-4-learning-a4l-community-joins-project-unicorn-steering-committee.html The Access 4 Learning Community (A4L) is proud to become one of the Steering Committee Members for Project Unicorn in their mission to "improve data interoperability within K-12 education by creating a community of innovators who make the broader case...Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:15:35 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12692075-a4l-community-pesc-join-forces-to-mature-json-usage-in-open-standards.html The A4L Community is delighted to be working closely with PESC to further the development of JSON usage in their approved open standards and specifications.Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:04:55 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12682733-a4l-community-proud-to-publish-data-exchange-standard-with-support-for-ieps.html Responding to the growing needs in the management and usage of educational data, the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community has released the collaboratively developed SIF Data Model Implementation Specification (North America) 3.5, which now provides added...Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:38:24 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12679453-australian-access-4-learning-a4l-community-announce-2018-leadership.html Following recent elections in Australia the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is proud to announce the AU Management and AU Technical Boards for 2018.Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:25:51 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12667442-thousands-of-school-data-applications-now-can-use-modern-data-transport-protocol.html Responding to the growing needs in the management and usage of educational data, the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community has released the SIF Data Model Implementation Specification (North America) 2.8 which simplifies the usage of the most utilized K12...Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:35:08 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12652911-a4l-community-embracing-creative-commons-to-continue-open-development.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community Board of Directors have recently approved openly licensing all globally developed SIF Implementation Specifications under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike International 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license.Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:17:34 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12626226-wests-education-group-obtains-xpress-roster-api-certification.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, made up of thousands of schools, regional, state, and government education agencies and marketplace providers across the globe, is pleased to present its first xPress Roster API Certification to West Corporation and.Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:43:29 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12621729-the-access-4-learning-community-formalizes-its-common-education-data-standards-technical-support.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community's North American Management Board of Directors has approved the new Data Model SIF Specification Development Process.Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:41:39 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12607959-access-4-learning-a4l-community-elects-2016-australian-leadership.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, formerly the SIF Association is proud to announce the election results for the Australian Management and Australian Technical Boards for 2017.Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:13:46 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12604848-just-the-facts-sif-specification-usage-in-the-education-marketplace.html The Access 4 Learning Community (A4L) Community, previously the SIF Association, has changed its brand name due to the fact that the majority of its participating organizations representing schools, regional agencies, and government entity members now...Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:22:39 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12601993-educational-technical-standards-101-why-are-they-so-complicated.html The educational marketplace is nearing its 20th year of numerous standards organizations initiated to address the lack of technical blueprints to help support software development, implementation, usage and ideally customer choice.Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:20:20 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12597352-australian-a4l-community-helping-mobilise-student-data-and-supporting-learners-and-teachers.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is delighted to announce the release of the SIF Implementation Specification (Australia) 3.4 to the educational marketplace.Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:14:26 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12595343-integrating-apis-from-various-sources-to-standardize-data-flows-for-student-record-exchange.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is proud to showcase the developments of its members promoting the true meaning of open standards and interoperability for the benefit of the educational marketplace – no matter where those standards originate!Wed, 19 Oct 2016 08:53:35 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12588183-a4l-community-and-ceds-working-together-to-optimize-learning-outcomes-of-special-needs-students.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is proud to support the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) work around Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for special needs students.Tue, 20 Sep 2016 08:03:22 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12585082-a4l-community-releases-sif-specification-north-america-3-4-supporting-state-needs-of-ma-vt-and-wa.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is proud to announce the release of the SIF Data Model Implementation Specification (North America) 3.4 to the educational marketplace.Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:32:47 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12571055-a4l-community-release-quality-assurance-program-for-xpress-roster-api.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is proud to announce the immediate availability of our xPress Roster Certification to the educational marketplace.Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:48:10 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12570792-the-a4l-community-open-api-for-k12-enables-community-driven-solutions-to-further-ed-tech-potential.html xPress is a new line of open, standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that provide schools and developers with a way to simply and securely exchange data among modern apps, whether they are hosted locally, in the cloud or on mobile devicesWed, 06 Jul 2016 14:49:50 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12570481-access-4-learning-welcomes-wests-education-group-to-the-community.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, formerly the SIF Association, is proud to announce that West Corporation's Education group has joined the growing A4L Community.Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:04:08 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12569712-the-student-data-privacy-consortium-launches-the-development-of-the-privacy-contract-framework.html The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), formed under the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, has officially kicked off the first project of the Consortium - the Privacy Contract Framework.Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:19:39 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12569369-the-a4l-community-releases-the-next-sif-specification-pushing-forward-with-open-standards.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is proud to announce the release of the global SIF Infrastructure Implementation Specification 3.2 to the educational marketplace.Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:06:56 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12562277-us-department-for-education-joins-the-access-4-learning-a4l-community.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, formerly the SIF Association, is proud to announce our newest member to the Community, the US Department of Education.Wed, 01 Jun 2016 13:31:00 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12546009-access-4-learning-a4l-community-elects-2016-united-kingdom-leadership.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, formerly the SIF Association is proud to announce the UK Management and UK Technical Board for 2016.Thu, 31 Mar 2016 09:38:04 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12534507-north-american-a4l-community-elects-2016-leadership.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is proud to announce the North American Management Board of Directors for 2016.Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:36:33 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12526616-the-rt-hon-nicky-morgan-mp-uk-education-secretary-endorses-the-great-work-of-the-a4l-community.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community was delighted to hear an endorsement today from the United Kingdom’s Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, during her Ministerial Speech and Keynote on the opening day of BETT 2016.Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:20:20 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12519280-bardic-systems-and-the-access-4-learning-a4l-community-release-application-roster-options.html Bardic Systems, Inc. is proud to announce the release of a cross-walked comparison of the most common student roster data models used by educational institutions and educational technology software developers commissioned by the A4L Community.Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:20:35 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12517107-student-data-privacy-consortium-launched-to-support-front-line-education-stakeholders.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is proud to announce the launch of its Student Data Privacy Consortium to the education marketplace.Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:50:27 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12297526-the-access-4-learning-community-publish-the-sif-xpress-roster-technical-handbook.html The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community is delighted to publish our latest Technical Handbook: SIF xPress Roster – everything you need to know about SIF xPress and the SIF 3 Infrastructure!Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:46:06 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12489464-the-access-4-learning-community-publish-enhancements-to-empower-the-education-marketplace.html With the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community’s new focus on data usage beyond just data management, the Community is delighted to publish an enriched, user-friendly version of the SIF Implementation Data Model Specification (North America) 3.3.Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:58:48 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12458248-access-4-learning-releases-new-interoperability-solutions-sif-xpress-api.html SIF xPress API Addresses Real World Learning Information IssuesThu, 21 May 2015 10:57:49 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12457789-introducing-the-access-4-learning-community.html The SIF Association Matures to Address Not Only Data Management but Data Usage for LearningWed, 20 May 2015 09:25:42 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12441057-the-sif-association-release-data-privacy-artifacts-to-enable-implementable-solutions-at-ground-level.html The SIF Association is proud to announce the release of Data Privacy artifacts to the global marketplace, which provide actionable and tangible privacy tools as well as guidance materials, to be implemented at the school or state level.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:13:48 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12436684-sif-association-united-kingdom-elects-2015-leadership.html The SIF Association is proud to announce the UK Management Board for 2015.Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:58:51 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12434674-sif-3-certification-turns-tradition-on-its-head.html The SIF Association have been amazed by the response to the release of the SIF 3 Certification Program, and are delighted to announce the first SIF Certified, SIF 3 Enabled Application – CedarLabs HostedZone!Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:46:07 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12396236-the-sif-association-uk-releases-the-latest-open-source-standard-for-simple-data-exchange.html The SIF UK Community is proud to announce the release of the SIF Implementation Specification (UK) 3.0.0 to the educational marketplace.Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:34:14 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12383341-the-sif-association-releases-the-official-sif-3-certification-program.html The SIF Association, responding to the needs of its membership and the overall educational marketplace, is proud to announce the release of the SIF 3 Certification Program.Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:03:39 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12358697-sif-association-au-engages-marketplace-with-edutech-interoperability-tour-and-hits.html June saw the first phase of NSIP's SIF market engagement initiative come to fruition at the EduTECH 2014 conference in Brisbane.Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:07:30 GMT https://www.prlog.org/12354027-the-sif-association-releases-sif-simple.html An Open Blueprint for transporting the Common Education Data Standards for simple education application usage or entire data enterprise development.Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:08:24 GMT