Presentation to curators, education personnel, and tech people about the LRMI and how that can be leveraged to make resources more discoverable and their collections more educationally relevant.

1. Making Instructional Resources
Easier to Find through Better
Technology
Michael Jay, Educational Systemics

2. Move beyond Judging a Book by its Cover
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3. Shifts in Education
From the learner & parent’s perspective:
1. How can I do better?
2. How can I differentiate myself?
3. How can I get what I need based on how I learn?
4. How can I do well on qualifying tests?
From the educator & institution’s perspective:
1. How do I address the needs of an increasingly diverse
set of learners?
2. How do I engage learners who have access to rich
resources and media?
3. How do I compete with educational alternatives?
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4. Shifts in Education
From the content developer & publisher’s
perspective:
1. How do I provide coherent offerings that address the
needs of an increasingly diverse set of students?
2. How do make the most of the instructional assets I
have?
3. How do I make the value of my product(s) evident in a
educational environment where learning objects are
more prevalent?
4. How do I transition my organization to leverage
emerging business models without losing what makes
us unique?
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5. The Education Market
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Emerging Model
Learning
Management
Environment
Content Creators,
Curators, & Publishers
Traditional Model
Users:
Students
Teachers
Administrators
Parents

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So, why do we need a standard?

15. This is possible due to Schema.org
What the heck is ‘Schema.org’?
Schema tells the search engines what your data
means, not just what it says.
The content on your website gets indexed and
returned in search results. With schema markup,
however, some of that content gets indexed and
returned in a different way.
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16. Schema.org is for Creative Works
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Answer
Article
Book
Clip
Code
Comment
Data Catalog
Dataset
Diet
Email Message
Episode
Exercise Plan
Item List
Map
Media Object
Movie
Music Playlist
Music Recording
Painting
Periodical
Photograph
Publication Issue
Publication Volume
Question
Recipe
Review
Sculpture
Season
Series
Software Application
TV Season
TV Series
Web Page
Web Page Element
Web Site

17. Relationships in Schema.org
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From ‘What is Schema.org, CETIS

18. But what about learning?

21. Why Now? Kinda’ Perfect Storm
Goal: Make it easier and more convenient to find learning
resources that meet specific student and class needs.
Curriculum
Standards
Schema.org
Intersection of
three opportunities
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Resource
Registries
(Learning Registry)
LRMI
from a representation by Brandt Redd, Gates Foundation

22. METADATA IS “DATA ABOUT DATA”
Data
It was the best of times, it was the
worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness, it was the epoch of
belief, it was the epoch of
incredulity, it was the season of
Light…
Metadata
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
Publication Date: 1859
Pages: 400

23. MOMA
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vs.

24. The LRMI Properties v1(lrmi.net/the-specification)
General Terms (Schema.org):
– title/name
– URL
– description
– image
– about
– created (date)
– Creator
– Publisher
– inLanguage
– useRightsUrl*
– isBasedOnUrl
Educational Terms:
– educationalRole
– educationalUse
– timeRequired
– typicalAgeRange
– interactivityType
– learningResourceType
Competency related:
– educationalAlignment
– educationalFramework
– Alignment Type
– targetDescription
– targetName
– targetURL
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25. Educational Role
Administrator
Mentor
Parent
Peer Tutor
Specialist
Student
Teacher
Team
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26. Educational Use
Activity
Analogies
Assessment
Auditory
Brainstorming
Classifying
Comparing
Cooperative Learning
Creative Response
Demonstration
Differentiation
Discovery Learning
Discussion/Debate
Drill & Practice
Experiential
Field Trip
Game
Generating hypotheses
Guided questions
Hands-on
Homework
ID similarities & differences
Inquiry
Interactive
Interview/Survey
Interviews
Introduction
Journaling
Kinesthetic
Laboratory
Lecture
Metaphors
Model & Simulation
Musical
Nonlinguistic
Note taking
Peer Coaching
Peer Response
Play
Presentation
Problem Solving
Problem-based
Project
Questioning
Reading
Reciprocal teaching
Reflection
Reinforcement
Research
Review
Role Playing
Service learning
Simulations
Summarizing
Technology
Testing hypotheses
Thematic instruction
Visual/Spatial
Word association
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27. Interactivity Type
Active
Expositive
Mixed
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28. Typical Age Range
0-2
2-5
5-8
8-10
10-12
12-14
14-16
16-18
18+
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29. Learning Resource Type
Activity
Audio
Broadcast
Calculator
Discussion
E-Mail
Field Trip
Hands-on
In-Person/Speaker
Kinesthetic
Lab Material
Manipulative
MBL
Model
On-Line
Podcast
Presentation
Printed
Robotics
Still Image
Video
Wiki
Worksheet
Lesson Plan
Test
Quiz
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30. Alignment Type
assesses
teaches
requires
textComplexity
readingLevel
educationalSubject
educationLevel
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31. The Learning Registry – Big Picture
From Learning Standard Alignment in the SLC Technology: A Whitepaper
SLC Project Document March 29, 2012

32. Learning Registry Simplified
Private
Learning
Registry
Node
Learning
Registry
Content
SCHEMA.ORG
(LRMI)
App
App
App
Search
Tagged to Results
LRMI
Properties
Paradata

33. 3. The Act

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What is the Process?
Use the Open
Source Tagger to
create LRMI
metadata for your
educational
resources.
Tagger output is
pushed to The
Learning Registry and
embedded in your
page(s) to make your
content much more
easily
discoverable.
1. Tag
2. Publish
3. Search
Your Data Resource Registry
Your content tagged
with LRMI metadata
is more easily
discovered,
accessed and
purchased.

36. EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

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EZ Publish

43. Illinois Tagger & Search

44. Maybe you’ll even have your own…

45. 6. Implications
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47. Why Tag to the LRMI Properties?
Discovery
LRMI is designed to make
your content discoverable
Value
Contextual relevance drives value.
Allows you to make your resources
more relevant and move to new use
models.
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48. Tagging… not a new idea
Our immune system
Millions of years of
evolution.
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49. Essential to discovery & data collection
Examples of tagging:
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50. Essential to discovery & data collection
The take away:
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Don’t release instructional resources into
the wild without tagging them first!
Regardless of whether you ‘raised’ them
from scratch, keep them as pets, or are
the result of catch & release

51. The Museum Opportunity
Make educators aware of museum resources in the
context of the content and processes they are
teaching.
Drive educator understanding that the Smithsonian is
a rich resource for teaching and learning and not only
a place to visit in person.
Inform the development of additional instructional
materials that complement existing collections.
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Shifting
Resource
Institution
Media
Legislated
Learning
Learner
Engagement
Discovered
to
to
to
to
Move from…
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For each of your organizations…
www.lrmi.net
Here to help you...
o Determine how the LRMI can help your
organization
o Provide support in finding ways to integrate
this into your existing processes
o Facilitate access to technical resources if
needed

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Questions & Contacts
Michael Jay
michael@edusystemics.com