The Learning Registry Project | Education Metadata Meetup

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From the Education Metadata Meetup on 7/30/14 - Steve Midgley discusses the important of metadata registries in the future of education and describes how the Learning Registry sets out to provide a common, free platform for the upload and exchange of metadata about educational resources.

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+The Learning

RegistryProject

Sharing what we know

Primary Funding from: US Dept of Education

US Dept of DefenseInfrastructure support from Amazon

The Learning Registry enables us to share what we know.

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The Learning Registry is an open source community supported by US Depts of Education, Defense and states, non-profits and corporations.

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Learning Registry is a cloud-based Card Catalog.

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Learning Registry is not a destination or a website: it’s a shared resource.

It doesn’t replace anyone else’s website or search engine.

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The goal of Learning Registry is to improve Content Quality and Access.

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What you write on the cards is up to you: that’s where LRMI comes in.

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Learning Registry = 3x5 index cards in the cloud

LRMI = Format to use when writing on the cards

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Any organization can get involved in a way that suits their plans (no gate fees, no gatekeepers)

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You can share whatever you want.

You can consume whatever metadata you want.

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Learning Registry is designed to give you information that you can turn into products.

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Or, you can distribute your products to others via the Learning Registry.

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Some ways to get started:

Participate in: LR & LRMI email lists (google groups)

Join our weekly community call: Wed 4pm easternspeek.com/learningregistry

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Thank YouMany slides credit to:

Daniel R Rehak, PhDADL Technical Advisor

Department of Defense

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Steve MidgleyDeputy Director, Office of Ed TechUS Dept of Educationsteve.midgley@ed.gov / @stevemidgley

www.learningregistry.org

Learning Registry

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Get involved at: www.learningregistry.com

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