Information about LRMI and the Learning Registry, presented by Sue Cowder and Jason Hoekstra of inBloom, Jim Klo of SRI, and Thor Prichard of Clarity Innovations

1. Using
Applying LRMI with Digital Tools
- Sue Cowden, inBloom, Senior Director, Content Publishers
- Thor Prichard, Clarity Innovations, President/CEO
- Jim Klo, Senior Architect, SRI International
- Jason Hoekstra, inBloom, Director, Developer Engagement

2. inBloom Published Cycle
Learning
Registry
Content
SCHEMA.ORG
(LRMI)
inBloom’s
Learning
Registry
Index (LRI)
A
P
I
inBloom Search
Vendor App
Vendor AppSearch
Results
Tagged to
LRMI and CCSS Announcements
based on CCSS
and inBloom
Paradata

3. • Expand market opportunity with use of the inBloom
Published logo and brand
• Increase access to inBloom customer base
• Increase discoverability and use of content and
products, including:
• Learning map tools
• Content recommendation engines
• Lesson planning applications
• Content collaboration tools
• Visibility into inBloom’s marketing calendar and efforts
inBloom Published: Program Benefits

4. • Open to any product vendor who uses the inBloom services
• Vendor enters into the partner program based on their fully
completed products, identified by copyright or version
number
• Vendor enters into the inBloom Published
program, agreeing to publish to the Learning Registry
• inBloom conducts a compliance test of the vendor’s
content, ensuring that the content is relevant and
discoverable
• Compliance testing is completed according to an agreed
upon compliance schedule
• Compliance testing fee is per product with discounts for
multiple products submitted on the same compliance
schedule and volume discounts
inBloom Published: Program Overview

5. Applying LRMI with Digital Tools
Thor Prichard, President/CEO
@thorprichard
Clarity Innovations
Learning Registry Implementation

6. Applying LRMI with Digital Tools
Jim Klo, Senior Software Engineer
@nsomnac
SRI International
LR Commercial Publishers Preview

7. • Built in coordination with the Learning Registry
• Designed to solve searchability for digital tools
• Provides a backend interface (API) for digital tools
• Wrapping up version 1.5 development work now
• To be released in open-source during Fall 2013
Learning Registry Index (LRI)

8. • Designed for curricular experts to create learning
pathways
• Standards-aligned
• Learning pathways to be used by digital tools
• To be released in open-source during Fall 2013
LRI Exemplar Tools: Learning Maps Authoring

10. • Designed for curricular experts and educators to tag
educational material to LRMI using standards
• Supports individual item and bulk upload tagging
• Publishes into the Learning Registry
• In open-source today (GitHub.org/inBloom)
LRI Exemplar Tools: Tagger Tool

11. Learning Maps and Tagger Tool

12. • Browser: “walk down the aisle” of digital resources
• Search: target specific resources with text and filtering
• Pulls from the Learning Registry Index
• In open-source today (GitHub.org/inBloom)
LRI Exemplar Tools: Search and Browser Tools

15. • Technically minded: it’s okay to take a quick nap
• How to describe LRMI in a data format compatible with
Learning Registry ecosystem tools (JSON-LD)
• Focus: LRMI, Schema.org, internationalization, A11Y, PD
• Advised by many smart people based on best practices
• Wrap up in next 2-3 weeks, please offer feedback
Community Update: LRMI in JSON-LD

17. • End-to-end kit for digital publishing: guidance + tools
• Guidance:
• Digital ecosystem overview (“bringing all it together”)
• Value Proposition
• Considerations of tagging
• Tools:
• CSV to LRMI JSON conversion scripts
• Bulk submission into the LR
Publisher Tool Kit

18. Using
Applying LRMI with Digital Tools
- Sue Cowden: sue.cowden@inbloom.org
- Thor Prichard: tprichard@clarity-innovations.com
- Jim Klo: jim.klo@sri.com
- Jason Hoekstra: jason.hoekstra@gmail.com