Kin Lane

The API Evangelist

Future of Education

OpenVA - October, 2013

API

{""Application Programming Interface""}

Commerce

• Salesforce (Sales)
• eBay (Auctions)
• Amazon (Stores)
• Paypal (Payments)

Social

• Flickr (Photos)
• Delicious (Bookmarking)
• Twitter (Messaging)
• Facebook (Networking)

Cloud Computing

• Amazon Web Services (Compute)
• Google (Apps)
• Dropbox (Storage)
• Box (Documents)

Data

• Guardian (Journalism)
• NYC Data (City Government)
• Data.Gov (Federal Government)
• World Bank (World)
• NASA (Galaxy)

Education

• Instructure (LMS)
• WorldCat (Libraries)
• Smithsonian (Museums)
• Pearson (Textbooks)
• UC Berkeley (Operations)
• Department of Ed (Policy)

Interoperability

Automation

Reciprocity

Visibility

Transparency

Security

Privacy

Power

APIs Are Everywhere

Lifelong Learning

Domain

www.yourdomain.com

Empowerment

Web Literacy

In An Increasingly Digital World

The End

By Kin Lane (@kinlane)