UOC at Learning Registry Plugfest #1

(15-16 june 2011)

Carlos Ors (corsg@uoc.edu)

Antoni Bertran (abertranb@uoc.edu)

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Agenda

• Introduction

• Previous concepts

• Objectives

• The plugfest

• Results

Introduction

• Event: Learning Registry Plugfest #1

• When:15-16 june 2011

• What is: hands-on technical event

• Where: Lockheed Martin Washington Operations Center (Arlington)

Previous Concepts

• Basic LTI

• Learning Apps Project

• Learning Registry (learningregistry.org)

Learning Registry

• “Informal collaboration among several federal agencies that provide the infrastructure to make federal learning resources and primary source materials easier to find, access and integrate into educational environments”

• Based on node structure. Each node is part of the LR network

Learning Registry: overview

Learning Registry: network

• Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) from US Department of Defense• The Office of Educational Technology at the US Department of Education

Learning Registry: members

Objectives

• Difussion of the Learning Apps project

• Use of Learning Registry (LR) in LearningApps

• Networking

The Plugfest

• Work in groups of similar interest• Report by the different groups of the work

doneIn our case:• Adoption of the LR infrastructure• Contribution to the LR: BLTI link and

context as metada resource to a LR node

Results

• Integrated a metadata document for a BLTI link resource in a node of the LR successfully

• People know more about Learning Apps project• Several interesting contacts like:

– Susan Van Gundy:-> Director Of Education and Strategic Partnerships (NSDL)

– Steve Midgley -> Special Assistant to the US Secretary of Education

– Daniel Rehak:-> ADL Technical Advisor

Thank you