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Learning Registry Metadata Initiative

Learning Registry and LRMI
Use of Metadata Tagging

Visit http://youtu.be/xKzpGjZ7sdE (click to open in a new window)

Education Metadata

Metadata why do I care?

http://www.lrmi.net/

why do we need a standard?

Recipe- all the different items that are part of the thing we are creating—standards about describing nutritional information of the recipe –this is metadata

Data-the book itself

Metadata for books—the title, author, length, readability

LRMI standardization of the metadata and how it is useful

AEP role-

Provides representation and insight on the LRMI TWG, oversee communication outreach to educational resource community

So what

Existing metadata standards now includes IEE LOM, Dublin Core Metadata, SCORM, Our own metadata schema

Why another standard—LRMI—to make it easier to find the resources—accessibility, the availability of curriculum, international baccalaureate

SCHEMA.org  international-need a standardized, centralized to use metadata to search beyond education

Leverage this to make the data findable, makes its way through the internet, need standaraized ways to find it

Need a common set of descriptors, common is not common

Education benefits by not going it alone but leveraging an existing industry-publishing

Allows conversation between stakeholders

Internet makes it more diffiuclt-various standards meet each other where they wouldn

‘t have in the past

LRMI—the future of education research

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Find overwhelming results, a million results, frustrating, takes too long to find what learners need, have to look through things to  find what they really want by combing through results to find what they need

Learners spending too much time searching, not enough time learning or teaching.  To be able to sort by grade level etc helps all

Focused on making educational and research resources easy to find

Coled with CC

Standard metadata framework for all educational content

Encompasses most common and often used key terms and filters

If adopted by major search engines, these will appear on the browser screen when educators and students are searching to help them get the exact information they need when they are searching

Get less results, but they mean more

Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

Recognize that publishers are helping in the discovery of ed res and the marketing and awareness and commerce.

LRMI changing the world

Process of describing the resource in terms of the sets of tags,  then publishing that in a number of formats depending on where it is being used (adopted by google, yahoo, bing)  making it evident where it is, making it discoverable

TAG ME <FIND Me> LRMI

Open source taggers, open source within own toolsets

LRMI enable better search

Potato salad search-set of metadata that come up in google without mayo etc.  imagine these happening within education—child ages 10-12, fractions, remediation?

Not for classes necessarily, but personalizable and individualized

Resources more easily found and more easily used

Enables better search

Fractions search, new version too available now

Learning Media

New Zealand largest ed publisher, print and digital company is gov owned, one of key clients is ministry of ed in NZ

Also global publisher and developer

Developed and host of largest metadata portal in NZ- hub for all  NZ

Market drivers-deliver profit, deliver future and digital future, growth,

Teachers need relevant resources, need to find info at the click of a button

Product perspective-plethora of computer disks in market,

Plethora of competitors, teachers can’t review all of these that are not relevant

Relevance

Discoverability

Accessibility

Channels and

Teachers and learners need to know searching yields relevant resources

Metadata—discoverability, relevant and accessible

Changes the way publishers stay relevant and

Bridging gap between publishers and educators

Challenges- search engines not structured for educational resources

No education schema for metadata, makes it a hit and miss chance to be hit by search engindes, difficult to clink up and browse

Can now provide structured linking and browsing, resources better aligned for common core standards, other standards internationally, better engaged educators who can discover relevant accessible resources easily

With no metadata, many resources are not discoverable within sear ch engines, when metadata is embedded, more tags come out and the resources become more discoverable

LRMI embeds more detailed tags in leveling, curriculum and standards alignment

MICRODATA reveal—a better tool for testing, displays the metadata in a table for display

LRMI enables:  search tools, integrated search, integration of catalogues of products, individualized learning,  and much more

Imagine a resource that rolls up when other searches are coming through, can find aggregated materials,

Progressive manner for using LRMI

The Gates foundation has funded the shared learning collaborative that is based on LRMI and also uses PARADATA which is meta metadata

SLC

Creates chsared data searches, Makes data speak the same language, opens the door to creating customizable learning maps and curriculum, plans for students, turn flood of assessment and formative data into actual insight and give students what they need in real time

SLC-cloud based data store, standardized metadata tagging language, open license API for building software applications that actually work together

More schools, better integration, and more data for everyone

Teachers can be free to teach, developers work  SHARING

Making better tools for teachers and learners

Creation and movement toward digital assets—LRMI plays a role to help developers to represent their resources, and to think differently about their workflow and products

LRMI and SLC—set of repositories of data, being able to coals those

Phase 1—

Development of specification, finding the learning objects within these specificiations by Jan 2012

Final review now

LRMI properties, learning resource or not, 6 directly at education—intended user, ed use, time required, age ranbe, interactivity, type of resource, competency and assessment

Common set of recommended values- ~300 developed in this set, will evolve over times, presentation, type, activity, etc.

Phase 2—proof of concept

Interactivity with the users, as we are tagging, how is it used, awareness building, collaboration of taggers and search, educator publisher surveys, encouraging/supporting schema.org adoption—will be turned on by next summer, then can filter by those attributes

PoC round one participants

PoC round two participants—22 actively pursuing phase 2

700+ resources already submitted for phase 2, 16 new publishers in phase 2

PoC next steps

Continuing to tag additional resources from publishers

Document best practice tagging steps

Generate recommendations for feature/function requirements for next gen tagging tools

Create service providers kit with services

Increase number of participating publishers

Shift from doing tagging to support publishers tagging

Goal is to make it easier to use,

References

Schema.org   http://schema.org

LRMI  http://lrmi.net

Learning Registry  http://learningregistry.org

Common Core State Standards  http://corestandards.org

Languages for metadata-localized in the US right now, in English, will be localized, there is a mapping to grade level, have a shema in any national organization around those pieces

Will work in standard browsers, google serves up different browsers geographically

Education LRMI not yet being served, by summer 2013

Content management systems- using to do mapping, can create an export, html microformat, fairly simple, limited fields

Does not address needs of higher education, only primary and secondary schools, higher ed use cases are completely different

How will ranking occur?—LRMI will not be part of the ranking, schema.org allows providers to come together to present, how it is decided to monetize it or rank it, we can’t use it, LRMI filter should be bringing better resources to the top

Creative Commons- works with open ed resources, license models for open ed, how to identify resources on the web and manage those resources

AEP and CC relationship balances the LRMI

In English now, math and language arts

Later will go into science and then social sciences, broader group around implementation of LRMI (spec has only been around for less than a year now)