STATSDCLRMI

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


CONTEXT


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

from a representation by Brandt Redd, Gates Foundation


So, why do we need a standard?



OUTLINE THE USE CASE


Classroom THEN & NOW


Transitioning to…

• Key skill progressions vs. content delivery• Personalized resources/feedback vs. whole

group instruction and advancement


Learning Resources

• Resources are structured for a content driven classroom

• Skill-based resources are by and large unstructured &/or difficult to discover


Content walls have cracked


Flood of available resources


But available content is not tied to the skills we look to help kids build



NSDL Strand Maps

http://strandmaps.nsdl.org/



NSDL Strand Maps



Personalized Content NOW


Personalized Content TOMORROW


CEDS & WHAT'S NEW FOR LRMIMORE THAN TAGGING WEBPAGES



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…


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.


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.


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


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


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


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


For more information,

visit:

http://ceds.ed.gov


CONTACTS:

Jim Goodelljimgoodell @ qi-partners.com

MORE LRMI UPDATES


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


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


MOMA

Where is the value?

vs.


Where are we in the cycle?

…Or is there an alternative to the swinging of the pendulum?

QuantitativeMeasurable

QualitativeDescriptive


TECHNOLOGIES FOR MAKING INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE


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


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


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


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


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


How This Works Together

LRMI Tags

Publisher ContentCatalog

Learning Registry

LR Index

LMS

Portals

Applications

Recomm. Engines

Paradata


Examples: FREE.Ed.Gov


Examples: ISLE OER Search


Examples: inBloom Tagger and Search


WANTED: These Applications

• Recommendation engines

• Learning maps

• Adaptive text and assessments

• Other innovations


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


Q&A & CONTACT INFO

• Jason Hoekstra• Director of Developer Engagement, inBloom• [email protected]• 312-420-5300• Twitter: @jasonhoekstra

NOT SQUANDERING THE OPPORTUNITY


What happens when these tunnels join… ?

BrainResearch

LearningData

Cognitive RangeSupport for the Science

Build a tunnel to connect the two


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.


Data Gourmet or Data Gourmand

• Balance between Quantity and Quality• Extends beyond borders…– Classroom– School– State– Country– Culture


Shift

Move from…

Resource to LearningInstitution to LearnerMedia to EngagementAdopted to Discovered


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
