www.learningregistry.org/about
The Learning Registry is a joint effort of the U.S Department of Education and the Department of Defense, with support of the White House and numerous federal agencies, non-profit organizations, international organizations and private companies.
...Importantly, the Learning Registry is not a specific destination, portal or engine that educators will “go to”. Rather, it is an open technology framework to which any content creator can publish, and any technology vendor (e.g. learning management system, content aggregators, or application developers) can leverage for their applications...
(JISC is supporting the participation of UK HE in the Learning Registry)
JISC is supporting the participation of UK HE in the Learning Registry, a global experiment to find out how the social activity around online educational content can be captured and fed back to users, creators and publishers...
...the hope and expectation is that some smart people will do some interesting (and unanticipated) things...
O'Reilly Radar, Marie Bjerede:
Helping educators find the right stuff, 15 November 2011
The Learning Registry looks to crack the education resource discovery problem.
Education as a platform, 28 September 2010
A data-driven architecture could disrupt the school system and improve it the more students use it.
Educational technology needs to grow like a weed, 18 May 2010
...Rather than designing and dictating the everyday workflow of educators and students, the self-organizing school identifies a small set of simple rules. These rules, in combination with multiple feedback loops, drive and iterate the work of teachers, students, administrators and others involved in teaching and learning. As with the emergent behaviors of ant hills and flocks of birds, the simple rules drive elegant, complex system-level behaviors that adapt to changing circumstances...
...Traditional education reform fails to scale because top-down designs don't survive the reality of the day-to-day classroom. Emergent designs adapt to real circumstances but depend on extensive data collection driving feedback loops at every level. Not only is this not well supported by existing technology implementations, but the functional requirements of those implementations are not yet well understood. Through a process of co-evolution, those requirements can be surfaced and technology platforms developed that can then enable education reform to scale...
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