A presentation about the LRMI Implementation Projects funded by the Gates and Hewlett Foundations in 2013.

1. LRMI
Implementation Projects
Lorna M. Campbell and Phil Barker

2. LRMI Implementation Projects
• 2013 – 2014.
• Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
• $20,000.
• 10 OER platforms funded to implement LRMI.
• 9 projects funded during Phase 2 of LRMI.
• 1 project funded during Phase 3 of LRMI.
• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI/Implementation
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

3. Connexions, William Marsh Rice
University http://cnx.org/
• Now OpenStax CNX
• “View and share free educational material in small
modules that can be organized as courses, books,
reports or other academic assignments.”
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

4. ISKME http://www.iskme.org/
• Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in
Education.
• “ISKME is an independent, education non-profit
established in 2002, whose mission is to improve the
practice of continuous learning, collaboration, and
change in the education sector. ISKME supports
innovative teaching and learning practices throughout
the globe, and is well-known for its pioneering open
education initiatives.”

5. MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/
• A free and open peer reviewed collection of online
teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed
services contributed and used by an international
education community.
• A collection consists of tens
of thousands of discipline-
specific learning materials,
learning exercises, and
Content Builder web pages,
together with associated
comments, and personal
collections, all intended to
enhance the teaching and
learning experience.

6. P2PU https://p2pu.org/
• Peer 2 Peer University.
• A grassroots open education project that organizes
learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners
recognition for their achievements.
• P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside
traditional formal higher education.
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

7. UntrikiWiki http://untrikiwiki.com/
• “We can help you custom build the most effective wiki to
connect co-workers with content, with which they can
create, share and discuss documents, projects,
and ideas. We believe in a tripartite solution to
harmonizing this complex network: choosing the right
technology, best-fit organizational practices, and instilling
a complementary culture of informational exchange.”
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8. UntrikiWiki http://untrikiwiki.com/
• Developed a MediaWiki extension to allow the use of
schema.org, LRMI and arbitrary HTML markup in
Wikitext.
• HTML Extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HTML_Tags
• Very difficult to get MediaWiki approval for extension.
• After project finished Mediawiki started supporting
schema.org, but not arbitrary html tags.
• Extension has been widely used but not necessarily for
LRMI.
• UntrikiWiki questionnaire
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

9. Curriki http://www.curriki.org/
• “Provides peer reviewed open educational resources,
curricula and instructional materials to support teachers,
professional educators, students, lifelong learners, and
parents, primarily in the domain of K-12 education.”
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

10. Curriki http://www.curriki.org/
• Repository, content creation-tool, custom search engine.
• Curriki source core on Github https://github.com/xwiki-
contrib/currikiorg
• Wide range of resource types.
• 32,429 open resources, plus private resources.
• XWiki object properties stored in an SQL database and
indexed into a SOLR index.
• Mapping from Curriki metadata to LRMI.
• Project led to tangible benefits but no observable benefit from
LRMI yet.
• Curriki questionnaire.
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

11. gooru http://www.goorulearning.org/
• “An open and collaborative online learning community.
Gooru enables teachers and students to find standards-
aligned, interactive learning materials that have been
rated by fellow teachers, share those materials in the
form of personalized custom collections, measure
students’ engagement, comprehension, and progress,
and contribute to an active community of teachers and
students by sharing your collections and best practices.”
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

12. gooru http://www.goorulearning.org/
• Gooru serves as both a custom search engine, a playlist
creation tool, and an aggregator.
• 18 million resources in gooru catalogue.
• 180,000 tagged to instructional standards such as the
Common Core State Standards.
• 1.5 million quiz questions.
• 50,000 teacher and student created collections.
• All resources tagged with open licences.
• Non openly licensed resources are taken down if
uploaded.
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

13. gooru http://www.goorulearning.org/
• 95% of catalogue tagged with LRMI.
• Incorporated components of LRMI into the gooru
metadata schema which borrows from a range of
schema.
• gooru metadata framework is used to disseminate
catalog of indexed resources.
• Backend metadata stored in a slightly different
framework from LRMI.
• gooru fields are mapped to LRMI fields.
• Metadata stored in an SQL table but are transitioning to
a no SQL framework this year.
• gooru questionnaire
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

14. Open Tapestry http://www.opentapestry.com/
• A toolkit that enables teachers, instructors, professors,
corporate trainers, students and learners to discover,
adapt, and share learning resources.
• The Open Tapestry toolkit allows instructors to develop
course materials and organise content into categories, or
Tapestries, to enhance learners' experiences.

15. Open Tapestry http://www.opentapestry.com/
• Open Tapestry harvests metadata and allows users to
build collections from the content.
• Uses OAI harvesters, web crawlers, RSS harvesters
• Custom platform built on ruby on rails.
• Platforms ability to detect open licences based on Pat
Lockley’s Open Attribute.
• c. 1 million resources.
• Try to encourage use of open content but also allow
people to create private instances.
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

16. Open Tapestry http://www.opentapestry.com/
• Ingests and preserves all kinds of metadata including
LRMI.
• Also allows users to create additional metadata.
• Provides fields for all LRMI elements but users tend not
to fill it in.
• System keeps track of the originator of the metadata,
important for derivative works to keep track of metadata
genealogies, to know who is asserting claims.
• Also implements IMS LTI to integrate Open Tapestry with
LMS.
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

17. Jorum http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
LRMI Implementation Projects, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014

18. Licence
LRMI Implementation Projects
By Lorna M Campbell, lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com
of Cetis http://www.cetis.ac.uk is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/