LRMI Smithsonian Workshop Presentation 140914-16
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Making Instructional Resources Easier to Find through Better Technology Michael Jay, Educational Systemics
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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.
Transcript of LRMI Smithsonian Workshop Presentation 140914-16
Making Instructional Resources Easier to Find through Better Technology
Michael Jay, Educational Systemics
Move beyond Judging a Book by its Cover
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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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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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The Education Market
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Emerging Model
LearningManagementEnvironment
Content Creators,Curators, & Publishers
Users:StudentsTeachersAdministratorsParents
Traditional Model
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So, why do we need a standard?
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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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
Relationships in Schema.org
17From ‘What is Schema.org, CETIS
But what about learning?
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
Why Now? Kinda’ Perfect Storm
from a representation by Brandt Redd, Gates Foundation
METADATA IS “DATA ABOUT DATA”
MetadataTitle: A Tale of Two CitiesAuthor: Charles DickensPublication Date: 1859 Pages: 400
DataIt 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…
MOMA
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vs.
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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Educational Role
AdministratorMentorParentPeer TutorSpecialistStudentTeacherTeam
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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 association26
Interactivity Type
ActiveExpositiveMixed
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Typical Age Range
0-22-55-88-1010-1212-1414-1616-1818+
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Learning Resource Type
ActivityAudioBroadcastCalculatorDiscussionE-MailField TripHands-onIn-Person/Speaker
KinestheticLab MaterialManipulativeMBLModelOn-LinePodcast PresentationPrinted
RoboticsStill ImageVideoWikiWorksheetLesson PlanTestQuiz
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Alignment Type
assessesteachesrequirestextComplexityreadingLeveleducationalSubjecteducationLevel
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The Learning Registry – Big Picture
From Learning Standard Alignment in the SLC Technology: A Whitepaper
SLC Project Document March 29, 2012
Learning Registry Simplified
Private
Learning
Registry
Node
Learning
RegistryContent
SCHEMA.ORG
(LRMI)
App
App
App
Search
ResultsTagged to
LRMI
Properties
Paradata
3. The Act
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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
Resource RegistryYour Data
Your content tagged with LRMI metadata is more easily discovered, accessed and purchased.
What is the Process?
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
Illinois Tagger & Search
Maybe you’ll even have your own…
6. Implications
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DiscoveryLRMI is designed to make your content discoverable
ValueContextual relevance drives value. Allows you to make your resources more relevant and move to new use models.
Why Tag to the LRMI Properties?
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Tagging… not a new idea
Our immune system
Millions of years of
evolution.
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Essential to discovery & data collection
Examples of tagging:
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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
Essential to discovery & data collection
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
ResourceInstitution
MediaLegislated
LearningLearnerEngagementDiscovered
totototo
Move from…
We need to be about thisWe already are this
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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
