Free/Open LO Repositories
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| Connexions |
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Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools to help authors publish and collaborate instructors rapidly build and share custom courses learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines. At the moment (25 October 2006) it contains 3577 LOs |
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| Merlot |
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MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. The repository is based on HTML links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. In that spirit, MERLOT allows access to its site and the materials there-in for personal and non-commercial uses as laid out its IPR policy (it retains copyright on everything). |
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| Jorum |
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Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.Jorum hosts learning and teaching materials of all kinds, ranging from simple one-file assets and links to external resources, to more complex learning objects including content packages. |
| Careo |
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Aims and objectives: To create a searchable, web-based collection of multidisciplinary teaching materials for educators provincially and nationally to realize distance education needs The repository purports (25 October 2006) to have over 4,000 objects in it. |
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| Cloe (The Co-operative Learning Object Exchange) |
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This project is a collaboration between Ontario universities and colleges for the development, sharing, and reuse of multimedia-rich learning resources. The major innovation is the co-operative exchange mechanism. All materials are interactive and browser based, combining various media into the learning experience. Assets or non-interactive materials may be components of the learnware objects in the database. |
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| EducaNex |
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EducaNext provides access to thousands of resources on various subjects of relevance to teaching and learning at the college level and higher. Member institutions list their materials on the site as well as fees for those materials. The site provides a forum for the creation of a market for learning materials. |
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| LoLa |
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LoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. It contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy. | |
| iLumina |
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iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses. | |
| Maricopa |
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The key to MLX is it being a place for exchange of ideas. Anyone from anywhere can browse and search the warehouse. Each "package" is represented by a descriptive "packing slip" that includes the name of the package creator, college(s) that were involved in developing it, contact information, a description, links to web sites associated with the package, and a collection of media attachments that include images, documents, spreadsheets, movie clips, etc. The attachments provided are free for educational use as long as credit is given to the package owner. | |
| Eoe | |
This EOE is a community of Educators, Developers and Businesses working together to use, create, and collaborate upon Educational Java objects on the web. Currently (25 October 2006), there are over 2400 educational Java objects in the library, covering virtually every subject area. These interactive simulations, illustrations, and exercises are available at no cost for anyone with web access to use. |
Free/Open Courses Repositories
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| MIT Open CourseWare | |
MIT's Open CourseWare Initiative is a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT itself. It has been created in order to Provide free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and learners around the world. At the moment (25 October 2006) it contains about 1400 courses |
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| Connexions |
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Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools to help authors publish and collaborate instructors rapidly build and share custom courses learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines. At the moment (25 October 2006) it contains 186 courses |
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| The Learning Matrix | http://thelearningmatrix.enc.org | |
The project (25 October 2006) provides access to 2000 plus science and mathematics courses, either through their use in the classroom setting or by providing resources with which those teachers can develop their pedagogical skills. |
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