The initiatives and projects listed below are all well-regarded and influential, and each takes its own particular approach to defining, creating, and disseminating learning objects. To give the reader a sense of the international aspects of learning object development, the efforts taking place in a variety of countries are highlighted here. At the same time, it should be noted that a great many countries have work of some sort taking place with learning objects, and our list is not meant to be a comprehensive listing.

The projects and initiatives listed here are rather intended to be representative of the major kinds of efforts taking form in countries around the globe.

• Australia
  
• Canada
  
• European Union
  
• Holland
  
• United Kingdom
  
• United States

Note: Brief and carefully worded descriptions like those that often appear on websites about project purposes and missions are difficult to summarize without changing the intended meaning of the words. To ensure each initiative here was represented accurately, the information in this section was collected directly from the official websites. Barring any errors we may have inadvertently introduced in transcribing or condensing the text, the descriptions are the work of the various authors of those websites.