New open educational resource aims to help stakeholders evaluate and share content, learning strategies

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Dennis Pierce, Editor writes, "Our top story today looks at a new open-source Learning Registry launched by the Departments of Education and Defense, which aims to help educators and administrators share learning materials and policy recommendations as they strive to improve education. Also, a Maine school district is hosting a first-of-its-kind conference on the use of iPads in education."

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A new federal resource will help groups share learning materials and policy recommendations as they strive to improve the quality and availability of learning resources in education.

Launched by the U.S. Departments of Education and Defense, the new “Learning Registry” is an open-source community that takes advantage of technology tools to help users share information about learning resources more effectively among a broad set of education stakeholders.

Some of the next steps for the Learning Registry are:

• Publishers will share information about their education content in the registry.
• Application developers will design tools for displaying and reporting on usage and social metadata.
• Recommendation and search engines will leverage Learning Registry data for surfacing relevant learning resources.
• LMS vendors, content aggregators, portals, and other platforms will create links to the Learning Registry to share data about content used within their environments: How it’s been used and how widely used it is, and so on.

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Source: eSchool News