WHAT'S NEW WITH THE
LEARNING RESOURCE METADATA INITIATIVE
(… & why I should care)
STATS-DC — 17 July 2013
Tim Farquer, Superintendent, Williamsfield SchoolsJim Goodall, Sr Ed Analyst, Quality Information PartnersJason Hoekstra, Director, Developer Engagement, inBloomMichael Jay, President, Educational Systemics, Inc.
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SESSION OUTLINE
• Context• Use Case• CEDS & what’s new for LRMI…more than
tagging webpages• Reflection• Making instructional resources available
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CONTEXT
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Goal: Make it easier and more convenient to find learning resources that meet specific student and class needs.
Curriculum Standards
Schema.org
Intersection of three opportunities
Resource Registries(Learning Registry)
LRMI
Why Now? Kinda’ Perfect Storm
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So, why do we need a standard?
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OUTLINE THE USE CASE
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Classroom THEN & NOW
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Transitioning to…
• Key skill progressions vs. content delivery• Personalized resources/feedback vs. whole
group instruction and advancement
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Learning Resources
• Resources are structured for a content driven classroom
• Skill-based resources are by and large unstructured &/or difficult to discover
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Content walls have cracked
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Flood of available resources
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But available content is not tied to the skills we look to help kids build
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NSDL Strand Maps
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NSDL Strand Maps
Personalized Content NOW
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Personalized Content TOMORROW
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CEDS & WHAT'S NEW FOR LRMIMORE THAN TAGGING WEBPAGES
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What’s new in LRMI
1. Accessibility (http://www.a11ymetadata.org)…derived from: IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Access for All specification
2. Implementation and vocabulary…
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Learning Resource Metadata
Multi-State Tagging Initiative
• Arizona• Colorado• Delaware• Georgia• Illinois• Massachusetts• New Jersey• New York• North Carolina• Ohio• Rhode Island
Learning Registry Index
Many use scenarios many implementations, common vocabulary.
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CEDS informed by other initiatives• LRMI• Multi-State Tagging Initiative• Learning Registry• …and many others
And in turn serves as common vocabulary across implementations and organizations.
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Tools at ceds.ed.gov • Total Users = 1,012• ALIGN Maps Being Worked On = 306• Public Align Maps = 54• CONNECTions Being Worked On = 313• Public Connections = 35
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More about…
Thursday Thurgood Marshall Ballroom — West
Concurrent
Session VIII3:00–4:00
Got Metadata? Multiple-State
Common Instructional
Tagging Initiative
Thursday Wilson AConcurrent Session IX4:15–5:15
Common Education Data Standards(CEDS):
101 Tools and Use
Multi-State Tagging Initiative
CEDS
Friday Wilson A
Concurrent Session X
9:00–10:00
Hands-On “CONNECT-a-thon”
Help Create Useful Data Metrics
for Publication Via Common Education Data Standards
(CEDS) CONNECT
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CEDS V4 Candidates• Learning Resource Accessibility from LRMI• Updated option sets to reflect the multistate
tagging initiative• Peer rating vocabulary from the Learning
Registry• Minor refinements based on comments
submitted via ceds.ed.gov
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CEDS Schedule• Public review period – September• Stakeholder groups review of public
comments• Finalize version 4 and DES and NDS logical
model updates – Fall• Version 4 release – January 2014
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For more information,
visit:
http://ceds.ed.gov
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CONTACTS:
Jim Goodelljimgoodell @ qi-partners.com
MORE LRMI UPDATES
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A few more updates on LRMI
• LRMI Properties are published as part of Schema.org
• Governance• Gaming• Nearly 200,000 resources described by LRMI• Interest by companies to produce tools– Awareness among publishers increased from 47%
to 86% over the past year
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Hard Core Common-ers
• Major Pro:– Ability to aggregate and compare data
• Major Con:– Qualitative, descriptive information
The LRMI sits as a major bridge between the two
• The role of paradata
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MOMA
Where is the value?
vs.
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Where are we in the cycle?
…Or is there an alternative to the swinging of the pendulum?
QuantitativeMeasurable
QualitativeDescriptive
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR MAKING INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE
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Pulling it All Together
• Multiple efforts + multiple years = actionable today
• Strategies and patterns now to tie together CCSS, LRMI, LR and LRI
• Application development underway, now is the right time to tag and publish
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Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
• Provides standards alignment to learning material
• Important to digital tools:– Shareable material across states–Provides unique identifiers so computers
can catalog, search and relate
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Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)
• Common data format to describe metadata about resources
• Title, description, educational usage, standards alignment
• Builds on existing work; modern format supported by major search engines
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Learning Registry(LR)
• Technology framework to receive and store:
–Metadata for digital resources – LRMI, DC, etc.–Paradata for how content is used – ratings
• US Depts of Education and Defense funded; community supported; open source
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Learning Registry Index (LRI)
• Built on top of Learning Registry
• Provides search interface for applications
• Useful for finding both metadata and paradata
• inBloom sponsored; Soon to be released as open source
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How This Works Together
LRMI Tags
Publisher ContentCatalog
Learning Registry
LR Index
LMS
Portals
Applications
Recomm. Engines
Paradata
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Examples: FREE.Ed.Gov
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Examples: ISLE OER Search
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Examples: inBloom Tagger and Search
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WANTED: These Applications
• Recommendation engines
• Learning maps
• Adaptive text and assessments
• Other innovations
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Getting Involved
• LRMI.net discussion list
• LearningRegistry.org email lists + monthly calls
• LR and inBloom.org LRI source code at GitHub
• Contact us, we’ll get in touch w/ community
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Q&A & CONTACT INFO
• Jason Hoekstra• Director of Developer Engagement, inBloom• [email protected]• 312-420-5300• Twitter: @jasonhoekstra
NOT SQUANDERING THE OPPORTUNITY
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What happens when these tunnels join… ?
BrainResearch
LearningData
Cognitive RangeSupport for the Science
Build a tunnel to connect the two
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Homage to the Art
• Support communities of practitioners• Invite the learner to play an active role in their
learning• Create representations of data that can inform
instruction• Describe context to clarify• What has traditionally been considered soft
data is actually quite hard… to codify.
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Data Gourmet or Data Gourmand
• Balance between Quantity and Quality• Extends beyond borders…– Classroom– School– State– Country– Culture
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Shift
Move from…
Resource to LearningInstitution to LearnerMedia to EngagementAdopted to Discovered
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Q&A & CONTACT INFO
STATS-DC — 17 July 2013
Tim Farquer, [email protected], @timfarquerJim Goodell, jimgoodell @ qi-partners.com Jason Hoekstra, [email protected] @jasonhoekstra
Michael Jay, michael @ edusystemics.com, @EdReflector
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