Steve Nordmark's presentation from the LRMI Workshop on June 5 at the Sphinx Club in Washington, DC.

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TAGGING PROCESS,
PRACTICES & PROMISES:
FOCUS ON STANDARDS
Steve Nordmark, Chief Academic Officer, Knovation, Inc.
06-05-2013

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Knovation’s Content Curating for LRMI
• Coordinating with LRMI technical working group on
the evolution of the LRMI spec (metadata elements)
• Serving Proof of Concept (PoC) phase of LRMI
initiative – performing content curating services (aka
“tagging”)
• Supported Accessibility in Metadata Technical
Working Group on the formation of their spec and
proposal to schema.org

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Learning Resource Quality Improvement Cycle
synthesis elaboration distribution engagement review
Creating
Composing
Assembling
Updating
Refining
Aggregating
Aligning
Defining
Contextualizing
Describing
Monetizing
Securing
Providing
Finding
Distributing
Including
Notifying
Sustaining
Using
Measuring
Reporting
Discussing
Rating
Qualifying
Quantifying
Assessing
Comparing
Planning
Learning Resource Quality Improvement Cycle
1 2 3 4 5

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LRMI’s Sweet Spot
synthesis elaboration distribution engagement review
Creating
Composing
Assembling
Updating
Refining
Aggregating
Aligning
Defining
Contextualizing
Describing
Monetizing
Securing
Providing
Finding
Distributing
Including
Notifying
Sustaining
Using
Measuring
Reporting
Discussing
Rating
Qualifying
Quantifying
Assessing
Comparing
Planning
Learning Resource Quality Improvement Cycle
1 2 3 4 5

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“Promises” for Publishers & Providers
• Unified standard helps streamline initial tagging
process
• LRMI represents a strong, focused base of common
educational metadata elements, including tagging for
standards
• If publishers unify around the usage of LRMI, it raises
the “table stakes” for content discovery applications

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“Promises” for Publishers & Providers
• Moves the bar up higher toward
personalization promise
• Stimulates innovation around quality
of use & effectiveness of resources
1 2 3 4 5
Feedback from Review to Synthesis & Elaboration:
Publishers have greater insight into Learning Resource
effectiveness

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Natural Context for LRMI Tagging
Granularity of tagging
[component level e.g., lesson/activity]
EARCHS
Classroom context
[teacher and student search]
Search & discovery

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Targeted Alignment vs. Maximum Coverage
Traditional Standards Alignment – marketing
emphasis promoting maximum coverage
doesn’t target web discoverability use case
Recommended Standards Alignment – Focus on
classroom teacher use case
Note: Avoid false positives = “Pinpoint” alignments to standards – vs. –
emphasizing maximum standards coverage

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Leveraging LRMI for Targeted Alignments
alignmentObject consists of:
• alignmentType
• targetDescription
• targetName
• targetURL
assesses
teaches
requires
textComplexity
readingLevel
educationalSubject
educationLevel
The description of a node in an established
educational framework
(i.e. CCSS Text Description: “Describe the
connection between two individuals, events,
ideas, or pieces of information in a text.”)
The name of a node in an
established educational
framework
(i.e. CCSS Dot Notation:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.3)

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Example LRMI Educational Alignment
Sophia Graphing Translations Tutorial:
http://www.sophia.org/graphing-translations/graphing-translations-tutorial
Teaches & Assesses:
CCSS.Math.Content.8.G.A.3 - http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/8/G/A/3
Requires:
CCSS.Math.Content.6.G.A.3 - http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/6/G/A/3

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Example LRMI Educational Alignment
Sophia Graphing Translations Tutorial:
http://www.sophia.org/graphing-translations/graphing-translations-tutorial
Teaches:
CCSS.Math.Content.8.G.A.3 - http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/8/G/A/3
<meta itemprop="educationalAlignment" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="schema.org/alignmentObject">
<meta itemprop="educationalframework" content="Common Core State Standards">
<meta itemprop="alignmentType" content="teaches">
<meta itemprop="targetDescription" content="Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations, and
reflections on two-dimensional figures using coordinates.">
<meta itemprop="targetName" content="CCSS.Math.Content.8.G.A.3">
<meta itemprop="targetUrl" content="http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/8/G/A/3">

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Example LRMI Educational Alignment
Sophia Graphing Translations Tutorial:
http://www.sophia.org/graphing-translations/graphing-translations-tutorial
Assesses:
CCSS.Math.Content.8.G.A.3 - http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/8/G/A/3
<meta itemprop="educationalAlignment" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="schema.org/alignmentObject">
<meta itemprop="educationalframework" content="Common Core State Standards">
<meta itemprop="alignmentType" content="assesses">
<meta itemprop="targetDescription" content="Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations, and
reflections on two-dimensional figures using coordinates.">
<meta itemprop="targetName" content="CCSS.Math.Content.8.G.A.3">
<meta itemprop="targetUrl" content="http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/8/G/A/3">

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Example LRMI Educational Alignment
Sophia Graphing Translations Tutorial:
http://www.sophia.org/graphing-translations/graphing-translations-tutorial
Requires:
CCSS.Math.Content.6.G.A.3 - http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/6/G/A/3
<meta itemprop="educationalAlignment" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="schema.org/alignmentObject">
<meta itemprop="educationalframework" content="Common Core State Standards">
<meta itemprop="alignmentType" content="requires">
<meta itemprop="targetDescription" content="Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for
the vertices; use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first coordinate or the
same second coordinate. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical
problems.">
<meta itemprop="targetName" content="CCSS.Math.Content.6.G.A.3">
<meta itemprop="targetUrl" content="http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/6/G/A/3">

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Organizing for Batch Tagging
Standards Alignment: typically the most complex and
time consuming portion of tagging
Sort by Standards Coverage: maximize efficiency when
tagging larger groups of learning resources

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CCSS Data Used During LRMI PoC
CCSS Site: http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards
ASN: http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/ASNJurisdiction/CCSS
inBloom’s Learning Registry Index
Note: GIM-CCSS Project - more granular statements for
subcomponents of standards & formalizing technical
metadata framework for granular representation

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Additional Questions
Steve Nordmark, Chief Academic Officer, Knovation, Inc.
snordmark@knovationlearning.com