2. Extending the Benefits of Technologies
Developed for Academic Education to Career
and Technical Education and Workforce
Development
The following information is intended to provide background information on the
current technologies that are in development to support academic education, in
particular implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and the
potential for expansion to career and technical education (CTE) and workforce
development areas.
The examples provided related to CTE and workforce development were
developed solely for this presentation and are not endorsed by any state or
national organizations.
3. The Learning Registry
The Learning Registry is an online platform that allows the educational
community to publish and consume resources.
It is a new approach to capturing, sharing, and analyzing resource data to
broaden the usefulness of digital content to benefit educators and students.
Capture Share Analyze
It is designed to facilitate data exchange behind the scenes for an open
community of resource creators, educators, and consumers to collaborate
and share useful resources, as well as information about how those
resources are used.
Subject
Matter Users
Experts
Educators Community Industry
Learning Registry http://www.learningregistry.org
4. The Value Add of the
Learning Registry
Popular search engines are not necessarily the best resource to use to find
Open Educational Resources (OER) since:
• Search results do not necessarily include reviews, usage
information, and tagging to standards.
• Many resources are not posted by trusted sources.
What is the Learning Registry added value?
The learning registry is designed to be an open, collaborative
effort by resource creators, publishers, and educators, resulting in
a higher percentage of quality resources for educators and
students.
5. Using the Learning Registry
Key Benefits How it Works
Expanded access to The Learning Registry provides an easy-to-adopt and easy-to
trustworthy descriptive operate mechanism for disseminating and consuming resource
data on educational information.
resources.
Pooling contextualized The Learning Registry enables sharing and aggregating resource
knowledge about usage data across disparate systems and platforms.
learning resources.
• Although the registry is designed to support the exchange of any
kind of social metadata or paradata the development community
is currently focused on exchanges of standards alignment data.
Providing tools and • One valuable service just released is sharing data about
services to make use of standards that match across states.
"big data" about • Services are being developed for:
resources. • Establishing identity between systems such as LinkedIn.
• Enabling node operators to automatically categorize
incoming data based on the level of trust in the publisher.
• Publishers can use a common framework for publishing
assertions about their resources, including updates, same-
as, replaces, deletion, etc. Services are being developed to
make these changes transparent to users.
6. Benefits to CTE and
Workforce Development
Contributing to and using the Learning Registry can benefit secondary and
postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) and workforce
development programs.
However, to fully realize the benefits, employability and technical learning
standards need to be open and interoperable to allow for consistent
tagging, and open education resources need to be identified and aligned to
these standards.
3. Illinois Pathways http://www.illinoisworknet.com/ilpathways
7. Using LR with
Illinois Pathways
1. Setup an Learning Registry Node on the Illinois Shared Learning
Environment.
• A node is already setup on an SIU CWD server.
2. Provide a searching interface on Illinois Pathways.
3. Create tools for tagging and publishing resources, aligning
standards, commenting, sharing, foldering, and more.
8. Examples – Searching
Scenario 1 – Open search for Career Cluster resources available to anyone
from the Illinois Pathways website.
Scenario 2 – Building off the Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC)
searching tool, include Career Cluster resources searching within password
protected interface for education and workforce programs.
10. Examples –
Show Usage and Related
Information
For each resource provide:
• Abstract • Ratings
• Comments • Resource Type
• Conditions of Use • Source
• Evaluation Information • Learning Standards
• Grade Levels • Subjects
• Languages • Tags
• Link to Resource • Usage Information
11. Examples – Search Results
Uses narrowing to and optional keywords to refine results.
13. Examples –
Conditions of Use
Each resource has one of four conditions of use labels.
No Strings Attached No restrictions on your remixing, redistributing, or
making derivative works. Give credit to the author, as required.
Remix and Share Your remixing, redistributing, or making derivatives works
comes with some restrictions, including how it is shared.
Share Only Your redistributing comes with some restrictions. Do not remix
or make derivative works.
Read the Fine Print Everything else.
OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/
Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org
14. Examples - Tagging
Provide an interface for users to tag resources to Career Cluster subjects.
The interface controls the metadata collected and stored, and corresponds
to the search narrowing options.
Tagging is the act of creating and publishing a resource
description for resources.
The resource description is created by identifying associated
metadata or paradata. This data, which is searchable by
keywords, identifies standards and related resources. For
learning resources to be discovered, they must be tagged.
This data includes, but is not limited to:
Title Description Use Rights End-User Role
Time Standard Resource Type Grade Level
15. Tagging
Location Date Author Learning Standard
Metadata takes the form of tags, markers, or fields that help
Descriptive
identify all manner of descriptive, administrative, and technical
information about a given object.
Administrative
A metadata record consists of a standardized set of
Technical properties, or tags, that provide a necessary structure for
describing a resource or collection of resources.
16. Paradata
Paradata is a specialized type of metadata which describes how a resource is
or has been used. Paradata helps communicate when you want to talk about
how people have used a book or other resource. Paradata includes statements
about a resource consisting of three parts: an actor, a verb, and an object.
Paradata
Actor Verb Object
Actor – refers to the person or group who does something with the resource.
Verb – describes the action of actor.
Object – refers to the resource being acted upon. The important part of an
object is the URL where you can find out about the object.
17. OER Commons
These screen
shots show how
OER Commons
provides users a
way to tag
resources.
OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/
18. Examples –
Aligning to Standards
Provide an interface for aligning Career Cluster resources to
academic, employability, and technical learning standards. Aligning to
States’ Academic and Common Core Standards is already being
addressed.
The standards for Career Clusters need to be setup online and
interoperable with Learning Registry.
19. Examples –
Other Tools
Provide additional tools and support integration such as:
• Aligning to multiple standards
• Building SLC learning maps
• Rating and commenting on resources
• Recording usage information
• Saving to folders or in a library
• Sharing with social media
• Using an evaluation rubric
• Creating course builder tools
20. Next Steps
1. Complete initial mapping rules of Learning Registry content to Illinois
Pathways cluster.
2. Setup an Learning Registry Node on the Illinois Shared Learning
Environment.
3. Provide a keyword, narrowing and advanced searching interface on
Illinois Pathways.
4. Create tools for tagging and publishing resources, aligning standards,
commenting, sharing, foddering, and more.
5. Work with partners to engage educators to get feedback and to tag and
publish resources, and align to standards.
6. Determine SLC integration.
21. Contacts
Oana Amaria, Workforce Development Specialist
oamaria@illinoisworknet.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/oanaamaria
Jeanne Kitchens, Associate Director
jkitchens@illinoisworknet.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannekitchens
Mike Parsons, Technical Lead mparsons@illinoisworknet.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelaparsons
Hinweis der Redaktion
Career and technical education (CTE) and workforce development at the secondary and postsecondary levels can benefit from using and participating with the Learning Registry. The Learning Registry is a national online platform that allows the educational community to publish and consume Open Educational Resources (OER). These are learning materials that are freely available to use, remix, and redistribute.1 The Learning Registry is an open source system that websites can integrate for specialized uses such as learning object repositories, resource portals, community portals, and learning management systems. It provides the technical infrastructure and community practices for sharing and transporting information about learning resources across systems.
You may ask, why not just use popular search engines to find education resources? Well, many resources available on the Internet are not posted by trusted sources. The resources may or may not be linked to learning standards and searching requires a lot of time to be spent finding and assessing the value and use of resources.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
Using the Learning Registry allows educators, resource creators, publishers, curators and consumers to share:metadata that describes learning resources;ratings, reviews, comments, and other annotation data;alignments to educational standards;usage information such as favoriting, foddering, remixing, embedding, and other social metadata and paradata;as well as resource updates, relationships between resources, and other assertions. Sharing occurs across district and state lines and combines the need for trusted resources aligned to standards with social aspects of sharing information with peers about usability and student engagement.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
Paradata is a specialized type of metadata which describes how a resource is used or has been used. This could be a rating or peer review. Metadata and paradata are often referred to as tags. For learning resources to be discovered, they must be tagged.
OER Commons provides members the ability to contribute open education resources. The resources contributed via OER Commons become available to other websites and online applications that consume or integrate the Learning Registry.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.
In order for secondary and postsecondary CTE and workforce development to fully realize the benefits of the Learning Registry, employability and technical standards need to be open and setup to allow for consistent tagging and OER need to be identified and aligned to these standards.