1. The Learning Registry Project Many slides credit to:Daniel R Rehak, PhD ADL Technical Advisor Department of Defense Steve Midgley Deputy Directory, Office of Ed Tech US Dept of Education steve.midgley@ed.gov / @stevemidgley

2. Why? 3. Digital learning resources are widely available, but hard to apply for teaching and learning. Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 Too Hard. + 4. It takes too much work/time to find digital resources. Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 Too Much Information. + 5. Educators and students already know a lot about how best to use resources. Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 Lost expertise. + 6. Users are leaving data trails but that usage data is often thrown away or locked up. Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 Lost information. + 7. We can apply usage data about resources to enable new learning services. Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 DIY TBD. + 8. New services can include better discovery, recommendations, curricular integration and measurements of quality. Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 Our stuff can get better! + 9. Theres more than just metadata out there Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101018 Pedagogy! Outcomes! 10. How? 11. Do as little as possible, as quickly as possible.

Avoid bureaucratic heat death.

Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 12. Knowledge Amplification Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 13. Learning Registry Use-Case #1 Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 This becomes a giganticpile of diverse informationabout learning resources. PBS says Hey, what unit? Oh, from NASA, great thanks, well use that too. Physics Teacher says Thanks PBS, youve got great physics resources. NSDL says Got it, thanks NASA NASA says Heres a cool video on fluid dynamics Common Metadata Timeline aka:The Learning Registry NSDL says Hey, 33 physics teachers actually used that unit! 14. Learning Registry Use-Case #2 Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 Black math wizards makesense of all this information PBS users say this assessment is often used in conjunction with this assessment. Sakai users say using info from black math increases learning outcomes Moodle users say this is good for chemical interactions Promethean smartboard users say this resource is good for fluid modeling Common Metadata Timeline aka:The Learning Registry NSDL users says this other tools helps for teaching to ELL students 15. Learning Registry Stack Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 16. Enable Others

No centralized infrastructure: No off switch

Control is local, accountability is local

No default winners: level the playing field

Anyone can provide information on anything

• You dont need to own it, to classify it

Identity matters: Who says it matters as much as what is said

Re-aggregation is flexible (think hashtags)

Usage/utility is shared

• If its really useful, youll pay for infrastructure

Trust is not centralized: expertise is an opinion

Govt should build what others wont, so others can build what they want.

Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 17. Learning Registry Timeline

February 28 th : Specification and test cases. v.0.1

March 31 st : Hackable demo v.0.2

April 30 th : Import / Export tools stabilized, Basic network running, Initial partners sharing live data

May 31 st : More partners sharing live data; conforming data supporting complex, disparate data sets (beta v.0.3)

June 30 th : More infrastructure deployed w/partners. LR network gets more complex.

September 30 th : Production network ready for use. v.0.5

18. Federated Community 20101022 Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0: ; Icons of their respective owners 19. We welcome anyone who wants to make a difference.

A do-ocracy those who do run the project.

Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 20. Participation

Be part of the LR community

• Provide data (materials, metadata, paradata, analytical data)

• Share data

• Analyze data

• Create applications and services

Help build out the LR network

• Give input, share experiences

• Build and test tools, APIs, specifications

• Be part of the technical work group / core committers

There are lots of ways to participate with the Learning Registry project

Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 21. Open communityOpen dataOpen source Open standards

Free to be you and me.

Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 20101022 22. Thank You [email_address] @danielrehak Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 [email_address] @stevemidgley / @officeofedtech www.learningregistry.org