ISLE Content Repository, and Searching and Tagging Tools

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Vision for the Future – ISLE CurriculumResources

My Resources

• Content repository• Resource Search• Recommendations

Engine• Instructional Management

System

Content Repository Example

With an installed user base that includes academic, cultural heritage and research institutions, national libraries, and government agencies from around the world, Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) provides for storing, managing, and accessing digital content as digital objects which ensures long-term access, supports a rich variety of inter-relationships, and can be integrated into a wide variety of information applications.

Cost: Open source software, no charge

Use Case Highlight: Fedora Repository software is used by libraries, archives, and research projects all over the world to preserve and provide specialized types of access to very large and complex aggregations of historic and cultural images, artifacts, text, media, datasets, and documents.

http://fedora-commons.org/

Fedora Example – RUcore• Community repository for a web-based library• Service for submitting materials• Make the material available through a nonexclusive license• Catalog, index, and display for user search• Provide statistics and reports• Customizable dynamic web page and script • Persistent location identifier (persistent URL)

Search

Participate

Fedora Example – RUcore

Search Results

1. Search for exactly what you want.

2. Narrow results.

Finding Resources – Orbitz Example

3. Read the reviews and make your reservation.

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.1

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, A Review of the Open EducationalResources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunitieshttp://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources

Open Educational Resources

Illinois Pathways Search – Example

Open access search for education and career development resources:

• Select Cluster• Grade Level• Keyword

search option

Illinois Pathways Search – Example

View search results and narrow them:

• Title• Description• Subject• Education

Level• Publisher• Creator• Ratings• Conditions of

Use

Illinois Pathways Search – ExampleView search results and narrow them:

• View details.• Go directly to

resource.• Rate and

Comment.• Flag an issue.• Provide

additional tags.

• Narrow your search.

• Ratings and comments

• Evaluations based on rubric.

• Standards alignment.

• All grade levels.• Top Key Words.

The OER Commons1 provides a great example for streamlining education resource searching and sharing across boundaries. Illinois Pathways is using OER Commons as a model.

1. OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/

OER Commons - Example

Save Searches & Contribute

Align to Learning Standards

Evaluate Resources

Recommend Resources

Content Repository - Scenario ExamplesScenarios Users Functions

Make new video series on Energy occupations searchable and shareable.

STEM Exchange Partner

Roles and access for STEM Learning Exchange partners to upload digital resources.

Provide statewide access across devices to AFNR occupation profiles in multiple formats.

STEM Exchange Partner

Roles and access for STEM Learning Exchange partners to upload digital resources.

Find lesson plans for Finance Orientation.

Educator Search by career cluster, grade level, and type of resources.

Use Transportation Logistics problem-based learning examples.

Educator Search by career cluster and planned use.

Provide Health Science worksheets for students to complete and upload to their online course.

Educators and Students

Roles and access for STEM Learning Exchange partners to upload digital resources.

Identify best resources to use with Manufacturing learning maps.

Educators and Employers

Publish resources to search, evaluate them, and provide recommendations.

Create a new learning map. Educator, Students, Parents, and Employers

Resources are tagged for learning map integration.

Find Resources - Scenario ExamplesScenarios Users Functions

Find Logistics simulations for a homework assignment.

Student Search TDL Cluster and narrow resource type to “simulations”.

Map out Research and Development courses from high school through college.

Educators, Students, Parents, and Employers

Create a personalized learning map.

Align National AFNR Learning Standards and Common Core Learning Standards to resources.

Educator Login, select resource to align, and use the standard selector to identify multiple standards.

Use Energy resources most suited to the learning environment in an after school program.

Exchange Partner Publish resources to search, evaluate them, and provide recommendations.

Want educators and students to know about the best online budget calculators for Finance.

Educators and Students

Publish resources to search, evaluate them, and provide recommendations.

Want educators to use the latest R&D lesson plans.

Educators and Employers

Publish resources to search, evaluate them, and provide recommendations.

Examples of How STEM Learning Exchanges Can Use ISLE Content Repository,

and Searching and Tagging Tools Upload digital resources for indexing by career cluster and for easy

searching and sharing. Convene partners and educators to publish and tag local and state

resources for all of the career clusters. Use as primary open search to pull in resources across websites. Use as a source for learning maps. Convene partners and educators to align common core and other

standards, including employability and technical standards. Encourage evaluation, ratings, comments, and other usage information

provided by users.

Check PointHow can all STEM Exchanges

Participate with and Use Content Repository, Searching and

Tagging Tools?

Unique Uses?

AFNR

Energy

Finance

Health Science

IT

Mfg

R & D

TDL