Learning objects repositories

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Defininition

This entry lists various well known learning objects repositories. See the learning object repository article for a definition.

Most repositories don't provide [learning object]s in standardized formats (such as IMS Content Packaging).

General learning objects repositories

  • MERLOT] (specialized in microworlds)
  • Connexion, Connexions is a collection of free scholarly materials. Interdisciplinary and grassroots of over 3000 modules and 165 courses.
  • CAREO, a project supported by Alberta Learning and CANARIE that has as its primary goal the creation of a searchable, Web-based collection of multidisciplinary teaching materials for educators across the province and beyond.
  • Encore (Community for Open Resource Exchange based on tribes, resources and collaborations, ie. small private wikis). This is new (Jan 2007).

Specialized learning objects repositories

Meta repositories

A list of sites that index repositories and/or contents

  • ibiblio, Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.
  • DLORN, Distributed LEarning Object Respository Network, one-stop source for learning object syndication. They retrieve learning object metadata from across the web and store it.

Various links

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