This document discusses how educators can share learning resources through online communities of practice and the Learning Registry. It describes how the Learning Registry collects social data about resource usage to help solve the problem of locating relevant materials. The document explains how educators can get started adding data to the Learning Registry by using a Chrome browser plugin to align resources to standards, rate them, tag them, and publish information about favorite sources for others to find.

1. SRI International
Center for Technology in Learning
Connected Educator Month:
Sharing Learning Resources
Presented to: Educators With Something to Say!
Marie Bienkowski, Jim Klo
August 14, 2012
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2. 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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Subtitle (if needed) Primary Source Materials
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slide as a graphic
should be minimized
to avoid confusion
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4. Text with Graphics
Subtitle (if needed)
 Text on the same
slide as a graphic
should be minimized Engaging
to avoid confusion &
Timely
Lessons
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5. The Learning Registry Solves the Resource Location
Problem
• Who built it?
• Library Model: Catalog – U.S. Department of Education
metadata – Department of Defense
– But no one updates it Advanced Distributed
Learning Lab
• Learning Registry Model:
Collect social data about
the usage of learning
resources • What Kind of Data?
• Share this data in a – Standard metadata, any format
common pool for – Tagged, Commented, Aligned
aggregation, amplification, to Standards, Rated, Clicked,
Viewed, Shared, Embedded,
and analysis
Modified, and more
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6. How
Does
It
Work?

7. What Can
It Do for
Searches?

8. What Can It Do For Communities of Practice?

9. 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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10. 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!
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11. The Learning Registry Collector

12. Use Your Twitter Account For your Learning
Registry Identity*
*Twitter Login Optional

13. Personalize
your identity
with some
background
information

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

15. Match with Common Core or State Standards

16. Rate with Achieve OER Quality Rubrics

17. Tag and Comment

18. Publish

19. Questions?
Email jim.klo@learningregistry.org
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