+ The Learning Registry: A How To Primer for Digital Content Publishers and Aggregators December 20, 2011

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Agenda Welcome - Mark Schneiderman, SIIA Overview & Speaker Introductions – Gail Lewis LR Background, Status and Goals – Steve Midgley LR How To Primer – Steve Midgley and Susan Van Gundy Reaction / Q&A - All 3

Speakers Steve Midgley, Deputy Director of Education Technology, U.S. Department of Education Susan Van Gundy, Director of Education and Strategic Partnerships, National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Digital Library (NSDL) Gail Lewis (Moderator), Senior Product Manager, Capstone Digital 4

+ The Learning Registry Project Primary Funding from US Dept of Education US Dept of Defense

Overview

Learning Registry is a distributed system that permits sharing of metadata about learning resources... © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

…developed through an open community process that engages learning resource creators, publishers, curators, and consumers. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Learning Registry is a data exchange mechanism—not a destination website, search engine, or repository—upon which diverse user services can be built. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Any form of metadata can be shared, but the community today is focused on exchanging specific metadata around resources and standards alignment. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Common Core implementation is accelerating demand for quality digital content that has been aligned to standards by curricular experts… …as well as resources that have been vetted by educators for relevancy to specific standards. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Currently, standards aligned learning resources are dispersed across the web and teachers have too little time to find them. Currently, knowledge about what learning resources are useful is not shared across the web. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

We have the web tools to create rich resource discovery experiences and usage data…but how do we share? © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Sharing standards alignment data through Learning Registry can help put relevant content in the hands of teachers… …and illuminate the “social life” of learning resources. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

How-to

With Learning Registry technology today it is possible to “consume” standards alignment data from others, and to share standards alignment data about your resources. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

In order to participate you will either run a Learning Registry server (called a “node”), or partner with an organization who is running a node. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

A node maintains a copy of the metadata and provides the APIs to publish and consume it. Nodes are infrastructure, you build applications that use it. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Today, the Federal government is running three nodes, and there are several other organizations running or planning to run nodes. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

To read metadata out of Learning Registry your technical team needs to process a JSON header, and pull either JSON or XML metadata into your data systems. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

To send metadata to the Learning Registry your technical team needs to publish a cryptographic “public key,” and convert your internal metadata into a format the larger community is using. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

We estimate that it will take an engineer familiar with web technologies about 3 days to publish data into production. Consuming data is more variable depending on how you will use them. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Currently the Learning Registry mainly contains metadata, published from a number of collaborators, about resource classification and usage data. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Standards alignment data is shared as both classification data (New York state officially aligned Resource X to Standard Y), and as usage data (Teachers of migrant students used Resource X in a lesson aligned to Standard Y). © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Multiple existing metadata formats can be used for sharing classification data. The Learning Registry community has created new formats for sharing usage data that function more like social networking data than library data. Other formats may emerge. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

The standards alignment metadata work is largely waiting on the publication of universal metadata ID’s for common core standards to be published by NGA/CCSSO in early January. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

We would encourage you to have your engineers engage with our technical team to begin understanding what specific approaches will work for you. © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Next steps: Interested parties should join the Learning Registry announcement mail list: © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Next steps: Product and system managers should join the collaboration mailing list: © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Next steps: Appropriate technology staff should join the technical mailing list: © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Documentation and information is available at: © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

Open licensed source code and a developer wiki is available at: © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY

+ Thank You Many slides credit to: Daniel R Rehak, PhD ADL Technical Advisor Department of Defense © Copyright 2010 US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: CC-BY-3.0 Steve Midgley Deputy Director, Office of Ed Tech US Dept of Education Learning Registry