From the Education Metadata Meetup on 7/30/14 in Washington, DC - Jeanne Kitchens discusses how Illinois has taken advantage of the LRMI and Learning Reigstry in building their Illinois Shared Learning Environment.

1. http://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org
ISLE Open Educational Resources
Enabling Open Access and
Integration Using LRMI and Learning
Registry
July 30, 2014

2. Topics
• About Illinois Shared Learning
Environment (ISLE) – Open
Educational Resources (OER)
• How ISLE OER uses Learning
Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)
and Learning Registry (LR)
• What using LRMI and LR Enable

3. Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE)
Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE) is an online platform that will
empower educators, workforce partners, and learners with integrated data
and tools to personalize learning and drive success for pre-K through
career. The current phase is focusing on tools for K-12 schools, Illinois
Pathways STEM Learning Exchanges, and career development with the
Illinois Student Assistance Commission and Illinois workNet®.
The ISLE Open Educational Resources (OER) is one of the ISLE tools.
​​Mission Statement
ISLE drives academic achievement and career success for all lifelong
learners in Illinois by enabling personalized learning through open and
accessible technologies.​
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4. ISLE Solutions and Integrated Features
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5. ISLE Open Educational Resources (OER) –
Available Now http://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org
• Search, filter, and narrow resources
o Learning Standards browser
o Rate and comment
• Share resources
o Quick file upload
o Quick tag or fully tag resources
o Create web page
o Upload entire or partial curriculum
• Create organizational libraries and invite curators
o Follow libraries via daily or weekly email or via personal time line
• Participate with communities of interest
• Follow timeline
• Widgets
• Install widgets on any website: search, library, curriculum, standards
browser
• API
• Integrate with other applications5

6. Enabling Open Access and Integration
For ISLE to meet it’s goals, we need to ensure open access and a model for
integration:Key Attributes of ISLE Enablers
Access to resources and tools for anyone! Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)/ Schema.org
Learning Registry (LR)
Achievement Standards Network (ASN)
Common Education Data Standards (CEDS)
Creative Commons (CC)
APIs* LRMI
Data models LR
Metadata schemas and frameworks ASN
LR
LRMI (Schema.org)
Common vocabulary CEDS
Licenses for appropriate use of resources CC
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Using a common schema for the payload means that the API doesn’t have to handle describing or marking up the data
it’s sending, it just has to send it—the receiving system will already know how to interpret it.

7. Enabling Open Access to and Integration of Resources
Learning
resource
metadata
adopted by
Schema.org.
Cloud
datastore,
specification
for replication
nodes, and
paradata
schema.
Metadata
framework
and services
for learning
standards
and rubrics.
Attribution
licenses to
protect open
access to
resources.
Common
vocabulary.
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8. Together, LR and LRMI enable ISLE OER, and other applications:
• The LR takes the burden of maintaining its datastore and specification off of
the developer, allowing organizations such as ours to focus time and money
on the end product.
• The LR provides a national/global metadata repository to enable an
applications marketplace.
• LRMI standardizes metadata making it easier to index and integrate
education resources.
More Reasons Why LR and LRMI are Important
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9. Metadata Impacts on ISLE OER
• Index – Essential for users to find resources.
• Filter – Options to narrow search results.
• Tag – Describe resources for educational purposes.
• Provide API – Integrate with other applications.
Datastore & Paradata Impacts on ISLE OER
• Consume and Produce Resources - Shared
infrastructure for trusted partners (via metadata)
• Usage Information – Share information about resources
collectively (via paradata)
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10. ISLE OER Produces and Consumes Metadata and
Paradata from Learning Registry L
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11. Enabling ISLE OER and Challenges
• ISLE OER consists of code, datastores, and an index developed and
maintained by the OER team for searching. The ISLE OER code and
datastores determine:
• Resources we deem as acceptable from the LR
• Augment or remove metadata from and to LR
• What resources we can share openly back to LR
There are challenges with using LR and LRMI:
• Getting a broad enough base of participants (i.e. producers) with LR who provide
open learning resource metadata as LRMI
• Receiving metadata with a useful vocabulary and tagged appropriately
• Aligning learning resources to learning standards and competencies
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12. API and Widgets
Using LRMI and Learning Registry, ensures
consistent metadata and paradata across
applications. ISLE is requiring applications to
integrate and use the OER API (based on
LRMI) for
• Learning Maps
• Assessment Authoring
Other examples of ISLE OER integration include:
• Direct access via the ISLE Dashboard for K-12
teachers
• Widgets available for embedding on any
website
Other
Websites
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13. Create, Follow &
Contribute to Libraries Create & Share ResourcesFind & Use Resources
LRMI and LR Impacts on ISLE
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14. Search Filters Using LRMI
• Standards
• Grade Level
• K-12 Subjects
• Access Rights
• Career Cluster
• Educational Use
• End User
• Group Type
• Language
• Media Type
• Resource Type
LRMI and LR Impacts on ISLE OER
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15. LRMI and LR Impacts on ISLE OER
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Tagging/Publishing to LR Using LRMI

16. Update Tags and Align to
Standards Rate and CommentCheck the Timeline
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17. Use the Guide Personalize Your DashboardParticipate with Communities
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18. ISLE Project Team
ISLE Project Sponsors
• Illinois Department of Commerce ​and Economic Opportunity
• Illinois State Board of Education
ISLE Project Team
• Northern Illinois University Education Systems Center and Illinois Interactive Report Card (IIRC)
• Southern Illinois University Center for Workforce Development
• IlliniCloud
• NCSA
ISLE OER Team
• Mike Parsons, Solutions Architect
• Jerome Grimmer, Applications Analyst
• Nate Argo, Applications Programmer
• Herb Williams, Applications Programmer III
• Deb Young, Education Specialist
• Jeanne Kitchens, Associate Director
Presented by:
Jeanne Kitchens
Associate Director
SIU Center for Workforce Development
2450 Foundation Drive, Suite 100
Springfield, IL 62703
Email: jkitchens@siuccwd.com
Office: 217-303-5862
LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannekitchens
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http://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org
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July 30, 2014

19. References
• Achievement Standards Network
http://asn.jesandco.org/content/technical-documentation
• Common Education Data Standards https://ceds.ed.gov/Default.aspx
• Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/
• Illinois Student Assistance Commission http://www.isac.org/
• Illinois workNet http://www.illinoisworknet.com
• ISLE OER http://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org/
• ISLE OER Metadata and Paradata Schemas
http://ilsharedlearning.org/DevDoc/SitePages/OERMetadata.aspx
• Learning Registry http://learningregistry.org/
• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative http://www.lrmi.net/
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