SREBSCORE Shareable Content Object

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SREB-SCOREShareable Content Object Repositories
for Education
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What is SREB-SCORE?
SREB-SCORE is a K-12 and postsecondary
initiative to share quality electronic content in
SREB states.
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Goals of SREB-SCORE

• Improve teaching and learning and decrease
  duplication through the use of quality electronic
  content
• Strive to contain or reduce costs through sharing
• Increase the number of faculty knowledgeable
  about digital content

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Potential Instructional Value of SCORE

• Quality digital content is immediately accessible
  for all teachers, faculty and students
• Instruction can be adapted to different ways
  students learn through access to quality digital
  learning content
• Digital content allows for active learning
  thereby increasing the likelihood of increasing
  student interest and learning

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Is SCORE Cost Efficient?Perhaps, over time

• SCORE is scalable
• Course content is portable and can be easily
  updated and modified
• Time and costs are reduced
• Teachers can re-use and adapt resources for
  different disciplines (Re-use is the core concept
  of SCORE.)

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What Does SCORE Look Like?
Information about Objects
Learning Objects
Repository
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How SREB-SCORE Works
State P-21 Repository
State P-12 Repository
State Postsecondary Repository
Postsecondary Repositories
P-12 Repositories
P-12 Repositories
Postsecondary Repositories
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Initial Year Expectations

• Implementation of the SCORE business plan
• Create and use intellectual property agreements
• Establish state repositories
• Establish the registry
• Adopt guidelines and standards for creating,
  managing and retrieving quality digital learning
  content
• Develop and use training materials
• Seek and obtain external funding

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SREB-SCORE Partnership Opportunities( Three
Options)
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SREB-SCORE Partnership Opportunities( Three
Options)
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Who Has Been Key to the Development of SCORE?

• SREB Educational Technology Cooperative
• Florida Distance Learning Consortium
• Louisiana Board of Regents
• Maryland Department of Education
• Academic ADL Co-Lab (The Lab is linked to the
  Department of Defense to promoting high quality,
  reusable, standards-based content)

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What is the SCORE Timeline?Implementation by
Fall 2006

• Obtain participation agreement with SREB state
  education agencies
• Seek external funding
• Continue planning and development of management
  and technical aspects of SCORE

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Why Should We Participate in SCORE?

• Digital technology is rapidly changing how we
  live and work. As schools and colleges increase
  their use of digital content, SCORE provides
  states with an opportunity to
• establish standards for digital content to ensure
  it can be shared and reused
• train teachers, faculty and staff about and use
  of quality digital content in instruction
• create state, school and college repositories to
  place and access digital content owned by the
  state
• access quality digital content from other SREB
  states and
• use digital technology to improve teaching and
  learning and potentially achieve cost savings

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What Steps Do We Need to Take?

• Work with SREB to join the SCORE initiative
• Identify key state participants
• Share information about SCORE with state decision
  and policy makers, schools and colleges
• Initiate or continue the development of state
  digital content repositories
• Work with SREB staff to facilitate the
  implementation of SCORE

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Contact Information

• William R. Thomas
• Director, Educational Technology
• Southern Regional Education Board
• 404-875-9211
• bthomas_at_sreb.org