LRMI Overview and Update, September 2013

Background and
State of the Spec
Denver, CO — 22 September 2013
Michael Jay, Educational Systemics
Dave Gladney, AEP, AAP PreK-12 Learning Group
LRMI
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Learning Metadata?

LOM
DC
SCORM
QTI
MLR
LRMI
OMGCEDS

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

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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A Complex Ecosystem
Need to be relevant to all decision makers in this
system.
There will always be a place for thoughtfully
developed instructional resources and curriculum
but…
Learners and educators have other options
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VS.
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2013
SOLpass.org

The Education Market
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Content
Developers

&
Publishers
Tradi9onal
Model
Users:

Students

Teachers

Administrators

The Education Market
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Emerging
Model
Learning
Management
Environment
Content
Developers

&
Publishers
Tradi9onal
Model
Users:

Students

Teachers

Administrators

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So, why do we need a standard?

But...

But nothing about learning.

MOMA
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MOMA
23
vs.

The
LRMI
Proper8es
v1
(lrmi.net/the-‐speciﬁca9on)
General
Terms
(Schema.org):
– 9tle/name
– URL
– descrip9on
– image
– about
– created
(date)
– Creator
– Publisher
– inLanguage
– useRightsUrl*
– isBasedOnUrl
Educa8onal
Terms:
– educa9onalRole
– educa9onalUse

– 9meRequired
– typicalAgeRange

– interac9vityType

– learningResourceType
Competency
related:
– educa9onalAlignment
– educa9onalFramework
– Alignment
Type
– targetDescrip9on
– targetName
– targetURL
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* part of LRMI spec but not yet adopted by Schema.org

Educational Role
Administrator
Mentor
Parent
Peer Tutor
Specialist
Student
Teacher
Team
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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 association
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Interactivity Type
Active
Expositive
Mixed
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Typical Age Range
0-2
2-5
5-8
8-10
10-12
12-14
14-16
16-18
18+
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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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Alignment Type
assesses
teaches
requires
textComplexity
readingLevel
educationalSubject
educationLevel
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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?

4. Tools

inBloom Tagger

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Illinois Tagger & Search

More to come...

AEP Program

Phase I
June 2011 - March 2012
Convene Technical Working Group
Convene Advisory Group to inform/review TWG’s work
Draft properties
Inform general public, decision-, and policy-makers
Encourage community feedback and discussion
Submit draft specification to Schema.org
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Phase II
March 2012 – April 2013
Awareness building
Proof of Concept
Collaboration on Tagger/Search
Educator/publisher surveys
Encouraging/supporting Schema.org
adoption
Hands-on Publisher Tagging Support
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Phase III
May 2013 – April 2014
Publisher Tagging Support
LR Sandbox for Publishers
LRMI Governance
LRMI Ecosystem
Service Provider’s Program
Awareness Building
Publisher and Educator Surveys
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5. State of the LRMI
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Happenings
LRMI Properties are now part of Schema.org
Others are building on/extending LRMI -
Accessibility (A11y) led by Benetech,
professional development (iPD) led by ISKME
Publisher awareness has increased from 47% to
86% over the past year
Increasing interest among companies producing
tools for publishers
Advocating for metadata like LRMI in EPUB3
requirements
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Happenings
Discussion at Schema.org level around
relationships between CreativeWorks,
collections, ordered collections, etc. (public-
vocabs@w3.org and lrmi@googlegroups.com)
Discussion around governance for the spec
beyond 2014
Increasing global outreach - LRMI presented at
IPA meeting in Dublin last week
Virtual workshop this winter (tentative)
Next live workshop @ SXSWedu (tentative)
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6. Implications
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Discovery
LRMI is designed to make
your content discoverable
Commerce
Contextual relevance drives value.
Allows you to make your resources
more relevant and move to new use
models.
Why Tag to the LRMI Objects?
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Not just for topical application...
Use to capture and communicate
instructional intent as part of product
conceptualization and design
Tag, you’re it!
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Shifting
Resource
Institution
Media
Legislated
Learning
Learner
Engagement
Discovered
to
to
to
to
Move from…

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Shifting
Resource
Institution
Media
Legislated
Learning
Learner
Engagement
Discovered
to
to
to
to
Move from…
We
already
are
this

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Shifting
Resource
Institution
Media
Legislated
Learning
Learner
Engagement
Discovered
to
to
to
to
Move from…
We
need
to
be
about
thisWe
already
are
this

Carpe Diem
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Carpe Diem
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or at least today!

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For
each
of
your
organiza8ons…

www.lrmi.net
Here to help you...
o Determine how the LRMI can help your business
o Provide support in finding ways to integrate this into your
existing processes
o Facilitate access to technical resources if needed
To do this we can...
o Present to you and those teams with whom you work
o Review and provide feedback on metadata you are
creating
o Provide information to show benefit to your organization
for participation

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Ques8ons
&
Contacts
Presenter:

Michael
Jay
michael@edusystemics.com
To
Get
Started:

Dave
Gladney
–
AEP
LRMI
Contact
dgladney@publishers.org

Teila
Evans,
Project
Manager

teila@edusystemics.com


On
with
the
show!
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