learning registry for connected educators

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Center for Technology in Learning

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Connected Educator Month: Sharing Learning ResourcesPresented to: Educators With Something to Say!

Marie Bienkowski, Jim KloAugust 14, 2012

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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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Primary Source Materials

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Engaging & Timely Lessons

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The Learning Registry Solves the Resource Location Problem

• Library Model: Catalog metadata– But no one updates it

• Learning Registry Model: Collect social data about the usage of learning resources

• Share this data in a common pool for aggregation, amplification, and analysis

• Who built it?– U.S. Department of Education– Department of Defense

Advanced Distributed Learning Lab

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• What Kind of Data?– Standard metadata, any format– Tagged, Commented, Aligned to

Standards, Rated, Clicked, Viewed, Shared, Embedded, Modified, and more

How Does It Work?

What Can It Do for Searches?

What Can It Do For Communities of Practice?

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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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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!

The Learning Registry Collector

Use Your Twitter Account For your Learning Registry Identity*

*Twitter Login Optional

Personalize your identitywith somebackgroundinformation

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

Match with Common Core or State Standards

Rate with Achieve OER Quality Rubrics

Tag and Comment

Publish

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Questions?

Email jim.klo@learningregistry.org

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