From the Education Metadata Meetup on 7/30/14 - Steve Midgley discusses the important of metadata registries in the future of education and describes how the Learning Registry sets out to provide a common, free platform for the upload and exchange of metadata about educational resources.

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The Learning
Registry
Project
Sharing what we know
Primary Funding from:
US Dept of Education
US Dept of Defense
Infrastructure support from Amazon

2. The Learning Registry
enables us to share what we
know.
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3. The Learning Registry
is an open source community
supported by US Depts of
Education, Defense and states,
non-profits and corporations.
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4. Learning Registry is a
cloud-based Card Catalog.
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5. Learning Registry is not a
destination or a website: it’s a
shared resource.
It doesn’t replace anyone else’s
website or search engine.
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6. The goal of Learning
Registry is to improve
Content Quality and Access.
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7. What you write on the cards
is up to you: that’s where
LRMI comes in.
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8. Learning Registry =
3x5 index cards in the cloud
LRMI =
Format to use when writing on
the cards
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9. Any organization can get
involved in a way that suits
their plans (no gate fees, no
gatekeepers)
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10. You can share whatever you
want.
You can consume whatever
metadata you want.
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11. Learning Registry is
designed to give you
information that you can turn
into products.
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12. Or, you can distribute your
products to others via the
Learning Registry.
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13. Some ways to get started:
Participate in:
LR & LRMI email lists
(google groups)
Join our weekly community
call:Wed 4pm eastern
speek.com/learningregistry
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ThankYou
Many slides credit to:
Daniel R Rehak, PhD
ADL Technical Advisor
Department of Defense
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Steve Midgley
Deputy Director,
Office of Ed Tech
US Dept of Education
steve.midgley@ed.gov / @stevemidgley
www.learningregistry.org
Learning Registry

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17. Get involved at:
www.learningregistry.com
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