The draft Reference Architecture for Teaching and Learning (RATL) is a product of the ITANA Learning Working Group in 2012-2013. Thank you to all the working group contributors!

This site is under development as we continue to incorporate and expand on the working group's findings from 2013.

Capabilities

A capability is something that an enterprise needs to be able to do to succeed. Capabilities show what the enterprise should be able to do, not how it is done or who does it. Agreement on high level capabilities is a foundation for subsequent analysis and planning of business processes and technology solutions.

For an introduction to the capabilities covered in the RATL, see:

More detailed capabilities were captured by the working group in the following working group documents:

Core Capability

Working Group Document

Curriculum Management Capability

Administrator perspective

Instructional Design Capability

Instructional designer perspective v0.2

Teaching Capability

Instructor perspective

Learning Capability

Learner perspective
Mentor perspective

Roles

An enterprise's capabilities are supported by people acting in roles. The working group captured roles in the following pages:

Data

An enterprise's capabilities are supported by data. The working group captured information about teaching and learning data in the following pages:

Data entities also appear in relation to processes in the pages in the Processes section, above.

Tools

An enterprise's capabilities are supported by tools such as applications. The working group captured information about teaching and learning tools on this page:

Standards

Standards help to define how assets should be selected and designed to support capabilities. The working group captured information about standards on this page: