Background and How To for Publishing Social Metadata to the Learning Registry

1. SRI International
Center for Technology in Learning
Connected Educator Month:
Sharing Learning Resources
Presented to: Educators With Something to Say!
Marie Bienkowski, Jim Klo
August 14, 2012
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2. Communities of Practice: Specialized Knowledge
 Learning now can take place online, with engaging and
interactive resources
 Educators can use primary source materials from different
online providers
 …But the resource location problem remains unsolved
 Online communities of practice are good sources of expertise
for evaluating the quality and applicability of learning
resources
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3. Text with Graphics
Subtitle (if needed) Primary Source Materials
 Text on the same
slide as a graphic
should be minimized
to avoid confusion
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4. Text with Graphics
Subtitle (if needed)
 Text on the same
slide as a graphic
should be minimized Engaging
to avoid confusion &
Timely
Lessons
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5. The Learning Registry Solves the Resource Location
Problem
• Who built it?
• Library Model: Catalog – U.S. Department of Education
metadata – Department of Defense
– But no one updates it Advanced Distributed
Learning Lab
• Learning Registry Model:
Collect social data about
the usage of learning
resources • What Kind of Data?
• Share this data in a – Standard metadata, any format
common pool for – Tagged, Commented, Aligned
aggregation, amplification, to Standards, Rated, Clicked,
Viewed, Shared, Embedded,
and analysis
Modified, and more
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6. How
Does
It
Work?

7. What Can
It Do for
Searches?

8. What Can It Do For Communities of Practice?

9. Communities of Practice: Make Your Voice
Heard
 Community members can use the Learning Registry Collector
to quickly add information about relevant learning resources
 The Learning Registry has resources from digital libraries and
repositories
 Connected Educator month is our opportunity to get “big data”
to analyze, aggregate, amplify
 Easy-to-use browser plugin
 Resource ratings based on the Achieve OER Quality Rubrics
• http://www.achieve.org/oer-rubrics
 Common Core and State Alignment Data
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10. Getting Started Adding Data to the Learning
Registry
 Requirements: Chrome Browser
• http://www.google.com/chrome
 Download and install Chrome plugIn
• http://bit.ly/lrcollector
 Make a Learning Registry Identity
 Navigate to web page of your favorite resource
 Align it, rate it, publish it to the Learning Registry
 Rinse and Repeat!
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11. The Learning Registry Collector

12. Use Your Twitter Account For your Learning
Registry Identity*
*Twitter Login Optional

13. Personalize
your identity
with some
background
information

14. Steps: (1) Match; (2) Rate; (3) Tag & Comment,
then (4) Publish

15. Match with Common Core or State Standards

16. Rate with Achieve OER Quality Rubrics

17. Tag and Comment

18. Publish

19. Questions?
Email jim.klo@learningregistry.org
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