The Department of Education and the Department of Defense are actively seeking participation in an exciting new joint project, the Learning Registry, which is designed to ensure that educators, learners, innovators, and the general public can access learning resources easily from a variety of platforms-websites, community portals, and other repositories of digital learning resources.
The Connected Online Communities of Practice project will steward a scalable, sustainable ecology of online communities in education to improve teacher and leader effectiveness, enhance student learning and increase productivity. There are already many online communities through which educators can connect with people and resources, but these communities tend to be isolated from each other, leading to redundancy of effort, missed opportunities for collaboration, and difficulty in finding appropriate support and resources.