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Mark also reported on the Race to the Top program in North Carolina, the NC Education Cloud projecthttp://cloud.fi.ncsu.edu/
-this project also involves IAM and Federation
-MCNC is working with a vendor to build a cloud service for all of K12 in NC.
-Also the Dept .of Public Instruction in NC is replacing their student system. They are Converting to Pearson, and will be running PowerSchool and other modules
-The districts will be aggregated into a Pearson Operational Data Store (ODS)
Review purpose/goals/role and future direction of this group
Important questions include:
- How can we support or complement the Quilt/InCommon efforts?
- Outreach to key constituencies
- regionals, state DoEd, early adopter districts, vendors, thought leaders
The expectation is that valuable use cases will emerge from the current pilots.
What work products should this group be focusing on?
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