A description of LRMI as it relates to professional development and accessibility issues, presented by Lisa McLaughlin of ISKME, September 2013

1. Extending LRMI: PD & Accessibility
Communities of Practice
Lisa McLaughlin, Director of Open Knowledge Networks, ISKME

2. Research Technology Training
ISKME’s Approach to Content Curation,
Data Standards

3. ISKME & LRMI

5. OER Commons & LRMI
• LRMI Advisory Committee
• Learning Registry Launch Partner and Early Adopter
• CEDS Granular Identifier Working Group
• a11y Extension tester
• iPD Metadata Project Lead

6. The iPD Metadata Project
Developing a Common Tagging Framework to
Describe Professional Development
http://www.ipdmetadata.org/

7. iPD Summit Findings
• PD tagging practices are diverse & locally constructed
• Commonalities exist
• Uniform metadata works for adaptive pd content discovery
• Better to build on what’s there, don’t reinvent the wheel

8. Reflections and Pain Points on a
Growing Schema

9. LRMI Reflections
• There will be growing overlaps in extensions as they emerge
• Onboarding process is painful for educators, small publishers without
engineers and school districts (incentives issues, what happens after
RTTT?) (URL Example)
• There is a mismatch between what teachers are looking for and what
district and state level folks want them to be looking for. Distrust
around shifting models.
• We are at a critical here comes everybody moment, as much for OER
as for published content
• Path dependence and the coming adaptive recommender systems

10. a11y & Accessible Learner Profiles:
Preferences for Global Access

11. Opportunities for the Evolution of
Demand for Learning Resources
through LRMI

12. Paradata Exchange
ISKME.org12

13. OER Endorsements: Building Layers
of Quality Control on OER
• Principles of Open and why OER is a game-changer
• Discovery and Common Core standard alignment
• Evaluation using Achieve and EQuiP rubrics
Opportunities for Publishers

14. Lisa McLaughlin, Director of Open Knowledge Networks
lisam@iskme.org
Institute for the Study of Knowledge
Management in Education
www.iskme.org