1. www.lrmi.net LRMI Proof of Concept Progress Report

2. LRMI PoC Goals Create diverse body of LRMI tagged resources from variety of publishers Feed search/discovery tool that provides visual PoC of LRMI tagging Document best practices for tagging Support publisher and LRMI’s TWG “real world” application and learning www.lrmi.net

3. LRMI PoC Players Dave Gladney, AEP – LRMI Project Manager Michael Jay, Educational Systemics – Project Lead, LRMI Proof of Concept Teila Evans, Educational Systemics – Project Manager, LRMI Eric Weiss, Agilix – Project Manager, LRMI Tagger and Search www.lrmi.net 05 Sept 2012

4. Better Lesson CK-12 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning.com Learning Station McGraw-Hill Pearson PCI Educational Publishing Rosen www.lrmi.net PoC Phase I Participants 05 Sept 2012

5. PoC Phase II Participants 22 actively pursuing Phase II 450+ resources already submitted for Phase 2 4 new publishers engaged in Phase 2 05 Sept 2012

6. Addition of the GroupSize property Not part of the 1.0 spec Clarified definition for the InteractivityType property Changed the order of some of the properties to support csv import to Tagger Publisher Submission Documents 05 Sept 2012

7. PoC Content Curating Stats www.lrmi.net 2 hours formal training with content curating team on LRMI and tagging tool Average 15 min/resource* 60% in tagging tool 40% for prep, QA, XML post, notes Currently 616 resources evaluated, tagged, and aligned 05 Sept 2012 * Resources submitted by publishers with varying amounts and quality of metadata as starting point

8. PoC Content Curating Insights Leveraged “recommended vocabulary” choices included in Tagger tool Increased speed and consistency of tagging Still added optional items not “pre-listed” www.lrmi.net 05 Sept 2012

9. “Real World” Application “In order to arrive at a useful schema, it is necessary to take into consideration the educational criteria that K-12 publishers and educators value.” June 15 posting to LRMI discussion board www.lrmi.net LRMI has balanced this at tagging level that is comfortable and achieves “ scale ” 05 Sept 2012

10. “Real World” Application “There needs to be a property to indicate the main subject area (aka curriculum area) of the product.” June 15 posting to LRMI discussion board www.lrmi.net ‘about’ property in Schema.org accomplishes this goal 05 Sept 2012

11. “Real World” Application “Requiring publishers to correlate their products to state or Common Core standards discriminates against publishers who cannot afford the cost and/or time to do so.” June 15 posting to LRMI discussion board www.lrmi.net NO REQUIREMENT, ONLY OPTIONS. In theory, the standard form of tagging should reduce the cost, especially if CCSS is focus of alignment 05 Sept 2012

12. LRMI Tagger Update www.lrmi.net 05 Sept 2012

13. 1. Discovery LRMI is designed to make your content discoverable 2. Commerce Once your content is discovered by teachers who need it, its your job to support their purchase process How you can use LRMI Tags There are two parts of this equation: 05 Sept 2012

14. How you can use LRMI Tags Use the Open Source Tagger to create LRMI metadata for your educational resources. Tagger output is pushed to The Learning Registry and embedded in your page(s) to make your content much more easily discoverable. 1. Tag 2. Publish 3. Search Learning Registry Your Data Your content tagged with LRMI metadata is more easily discovered, accessed and purchased. 05 Sept 2012

15. Tagger Status and Features on Version 1.0 Completed multiple rounds of development gathering feedback on look, feel and features CSV Import dramatically eases content entry process Now supports matching of dot notation to CCSS Save will include options to save to CSV and HMTL 5.0 microdata for use in other applications and websites 05 Sept 2012

16. LRMI Tagger Demo – Latest Release www.lrmi.net 05 Sept 2012

17. Next Steps: LRMI & Dependant Projects Schema.org adoption www.lrmi.net The LRMI working group recently reached resolution on two key issues that were holding up proposal 1.Audience proposal at Schema.org level results in educationalAudience property in LRMI 2.New educationalFramework property under educationalAlignment allows tagger to indicate the framework or authority that defines the alignment (i.e., CCSS) Greg Grossmeier (TWG Lead) has a note in to Dan Brickley for ETA on next Schema.org revision 05 Sept 2012

18. www.lrmi.net Shared Learning Collaborative (slcedu.org) Shared technology services (data store, APIs, content search) to enable personalized learning Focus on CCSS-aligned materials 5 states launching in December: CO, IL, MA, NY, NC 4 more states (DE, GA, KY, LA) and official “hard launch” of SLC in March at SxSW 05 Sept 2012 Next Steps: LRMI & Dependant Projects SLC and Learning Registry

19. www.lrmi.net Learning Registry SLC will have a node in LR Continued development 05 Sept 2012 Next Steps: LRMI & Dependant Projects SLC and Learning Registry

20. Reading Your Tagger Data Files Alphabet Soup www.lrmi.net 1.XML – Output from phase one of LRMI tagging 2.JSON – Current output format from Tagger (preferred format for Learning Registry) 3.CSV – To enable audit and possible import into your own web publishing systems (coming soon) 4.HTML microdata – For embedding in your web pages via script (also coming soon) 05 Sept 2012

21. Reading Your Tagger Data Files XML www.lrmi.net 05 Sept 2012

22. Reading Your Tagger Data Files XML www.lrmi.net 05 Sept 2012 …

23. Reading Your Tagger Data Files XML www.lrmi.net 05 Sept 2012 … http://platform.learning.com/Content/LicenseAgreements/LCOM/UserAgree ment2011-10-03.htm

24. Reading Your Tagger Data Files XML www.lrmi.net 05 Sept 2012 <meta itemprop = "description" content = "Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2). " /> …

25. Reading Your Tagger Data Files JSON www.lrmi.net "itemprop": "intendedEndUserRole", "content": "Student" }, { "itemprop": "educationalUse", "content": "Discovery Learning" }, { "itemprop": "educationalUse", "content": " Reading" }, { "itemprop": "educationalUse", "content": " Comparing" 05 Sept 2012

26. Your Next Steps www.lrmi.net 1.Keep submitting that metadata! 2.Tryout the Tagger application We’re here to help you! 3.Work to determine work flow in your organization 4.End of February ’13, AEP transitions from: Tagging services provider to Provider of support for publishers tagging 5.Program for service providers rolls out in late October 05 Sept 2012

27. Ask us www.lrmi.net We’re here to help you… Sell LRMI within your organizations Provide support in finding ways to integrate this into your existing processes Facilitate access to technical resources if needed To do this we can… Present to you and those teams with whom you work Review and provide feedback on metadata you are creating Provide information to show benefit to your organization for participation 05 Sept 2012

28. Questions www.lrmi.net Dave Gladney dgladney@AEPweb.org Teila Evans teila@edusystemics.com 05 Sept 2012