FAQs

What is Education Nexus Oregon?

Education Nexus Oregon (ENO) is a non-profit created through a collaborative effort of education technology leaders in the State of Oregon. We are working together to build a scalable growth model, which has worked here in Oregon, as well as a successful model in several other states (FL, MI, CA, among others).

Who belongs to Education Nexus Oregon?

Membership in ENO includes the largest school districts and education service districts in Oregon, representing 65.31% of ADM.

How is Education Nexus Oregon funded?

    1. ENO is funded through a combination of membership fees and grant funds. We received an initial grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF) that has funded development work to:
      1. Build individual Ed-Fi operational data store (ODS)’s for member districts, using Ed-Fi’s data-standard;
      2. Fund development needed to finalize data transfer from the most common Student Information System (SIS), Synergy by Edupoint, via an Ed-Fi certified application programming interface (API);
      3. Establish data transfers from the most-common Assessments,
      4. Delivery of a “Freshman On-Track to Graduate” report delivered via Microsoft’s PowerBI tool;
      5. Fund development support for an API to share ACT test data to a local ODS;
      6. Conduct analysis to support expansion of the Ed-Fi schema to support more robust data-sharing.

What is the Ed-Fi data standard?

The Ed-Fi Data Standard is the set of rules for the collection, management, and organization of educational data that allows multiple systems to share their information in a seamless, actionable way.

What is a data standard?

Data standards (such as Ed-Fi) define rules for how data should be formatted and exchanged between systems.

Until now, every piece of educational technology used its own “language” for storing and managing data. One tool’s language was different from the next’s—making integration of two tools costly and time consuming. The student information system couldn’t talk to the learning management system, which couldn’t talk to the assessment software, which couldn’t talk to other systems.

The data is siloed and is, therefore, less useful to educators who are unable to get a complete view into their student’s needs and challenges.

What problems are we trying to solve?

Problem Statements