LRMI Smithsonian Workshop Presentation 140914-16

Making Instructional Resources Easier to Find through Better Technology

Michael Jay, Educational Systemics

Move beyond Judging a Book by its Cover

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Shifts in Education

From the learner & parent’s perspective:

1. How can I do better?

2. How can I differentiate myself?

3. How can I get what I need based on how I learn?

4. How can I do well on qualifying tests?

From the educator & institution’s perspective:

1. How do I address the needs of an increasingly diverse set of learners?

2. How do I engage learners who have access to rich resources and media?

3. How do I compete with educational alternatives?

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Shifts in Education

From the content developer & publisher’s perspective:

1. How do I provide coherent offerings that address the needs of an increasingly diverse set of students?

2. How do make the most of the instructional assets I have?

3. How do I make the value of my product(s) evident in a educational environment where learning objects are more prevalent?

4. How do I transition my organization to leverage emerging business models without losing what makes us unique?

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The Education Market

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Emerging Model

LearningManagementEnvironment

Content Creators,Curators, & Publishers

Users:StudentsTeachersAdministratorsParents

Traditional Model

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So, why do we need a standard?

This is possible due to Schema.org

What the heck is ‘Schema.org’?

Schema tells the search engines what your data means, not just what it says.

The content on your website gets indexed and returned in search results. With schema markup, however, some of that content gets indexed and returned in a different way.

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Schema.org is for Creative Works

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Answer

Article

Book

Clip

Code

Comment

Data Catalog

Dataset

Diet

Email Message

Episode

Exercise Plan

Item List

Map

Media Object

Movie

Music Playlist

Music Recording

Painting

Periodical

Photograph

Publication Issue

Publication Volume

Question

Recipe

Review

Sculpture

Season

Series

Software Application

TV Season

TV Series

Web Page

Web Page Element

Web Site

Relationships in Schema.org

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But what about learning?

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

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Resource Registries

(Learning Registry)

LRMI

Why Now? Kinda’ Perfect Storm

from a representation by Brandt Redd, Gates Foundation

METADATA IS “DATA ABOUT DATA”

MetadataTitle: A Tale of Two CitiesAuthor: Charles DickensPublication Date: 1859 Pages: 400

DataIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light…

MOMA

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vs.

The LRMI Properties v1 (lrmi.net/the-specification)

General Terms (Schema.org):– title/name– URL– description– image– about– created (date)– Creator– Publisher– inLanguage– useRightsUrl*– isBasedOnUrl

Educational Terms:– educationalRole– educationalUse – timeRequired– typicalAgeRange – interactivityType – learningResourceType

Competency related:– educationalAlignment– educationalFramework– Alignment Type– targetDescription– targetName– targetURL

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Educational Role

AdministratorMentorParentPeer TutorSpecialistStudentTeacherTeam

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Educational Use

Activity

Analogies

Assessment

Auditory

Brainstorming

Classifying

Comparing

Cooperative Learning

Creative Response

Demonstration

Differentiation

Discovery Learning

Discussion/Debate

Drill & Practice

Experiential

Field Trip

Game

Generating hypotheses

Guided questions

Hands-on

Homework

ID similarities & differences

Inquiry

Interactive

Interview/Survey

Interviews

Introduction

Journaling

Kinesthetic

Laboratory

Lecture

Metaphors

Model & Simulation

Musical

Nonlinguistic

Note taking

Peer Coaching

Peer Response

Play

Presentation

Problem Solving

Problem-based

Project

Questioning

Reading

Reciprocal teaching

Reflection

Reinforcement

Research

Review

Role Playing

Service learning

Simulations

Summarizing

Technology

Testing hypotheses

Thematic instruction

Visual/Spatial

Word association26

Interactivity Type

ActiveExpositiveMixed

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Typical Age Range

0-22-55-88-1010-1212-1414-1616-1818+

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Learning Resource Type

ActivityAudioBroadcastCalculatorDiscussionE-MailField TripHands-onIn-Person/Speaker

KinestheticLab MaterialManipulativeMBLModelOn-LinePodcast PresentationPrinted

RoboticsStill ImageVideoWikiWorksheetLesson PlanTestQuiz

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Alignment Type

assessesteachesrequirestextComplexityreadingLeveleducationalSubjecteducationLevel

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The Learning Registry – Big Picture

From Learning Standard Alignment in the SLC Technology: A Whitepaper

SLC Project Document March 29, 2012

Learning Registry Simplified

Private

Learning

Registry

Node

Learning

RegistryContent

SCHEMA.ORG

(LRMI)

App

App

App

Search

ResultsTagged to

LRMI

Properties

Paradata

3. The Act

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Use the Open Source Tagger to create LRMI metadata for your educational resources.

Tagger output is pushed to The Learning Registry and embedded in your page(s) to make your content much more easily discoverable.

1. Tag

2. Publish

3. Search

Resource RegistryYour Data

Your content tagged with LRMI metadata is more easily discovered, accessed and purchased.

What is the Process?

EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

Illinois Tagger & Search

Maybe you’ll even have your own…

6. Implications

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DiscoveryLRMI is designed to make your content discoverable

ValueContextual relevance drives value. Allows you to make your resources more relevant and move to new use models.

Why Tag to the LRMI Properties?

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Tagging… not a new idea

Our immune system

Millions of years of

evolution.

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Essential to discovery & data collection

Examples of tagging:

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The take away:

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Don’t release instructional resources into the wild without tagging them first!

Regardless of whether you ‘raised’ them from scratch, keep them as pets, or are the result of catch & release

Essential to discovery & data collection

The Museum Opportunity

Make educators aware of museum resources in the context of the content and processes they are teaching.

Drive educator understanding that the Smithsonian is a rich resource for teaching and learning and not only a place to visit in person.

Inform the development of additional instructional materials that complement existing collections.

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Shifting

ResourceInstitution

MediaLegislated

LearningLearnerEngagementDiscovered

totototo

Move from…

We need to be about thisWe already are this

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For each of your organizations…

www.lrmi.net

Here to help you...

o Determine how the LRMI can help your

organization

o Provide support in finding ways to integrate

this into your existing processes

o Facilitate access to technical resources if

needed

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Questions & Contacts

Michael Jaymichael@edusystemics.com