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This collection of links is intended to be representative of the
scope and range of learning object repositories relevant to higher
education.
General Repositories
- Apple Learning Interchange — Learning Resources
- CAREO
- http://www.careo.org/
- Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects
- A project supported by Alberta Learning that will create a
searchable, Web-based collection of multidisciplinary teaching
materials for educators across the province.
- Educational Object Economy (EOE)
- Educational Software Components of Tomorrow (ESCOT)
- http://www.escot.org/
- "A testbed for the integration of innovative technology in
middle school mathematics. The project investigates replicable
practices that produce predictably high quality digital learning
resources."
- Filamentality
- http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
- A "fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you
through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet
sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities."
- Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) Project
- http://www.thegateway.org/
- "The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson
plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the
Internet!"
- Searchable by keyword and educational level.
- MERLOT
- http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
- MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for
faculty and students in higher education. With a continually
growing collection of online learning materials, assignments
and reviews, MERLOT helps faculty enhance instruction.
- OpenCourseWare (MIT)
- http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
- MIT OCW has begun publishing online course materials that
are available free of charge. They are aiming to have all of
MIT's course materials available over the web in a "single,
searchable" structure. Currently, the course materials are listed
by course and are not searchable.
- Wisconsin Online Resource Center
Discipline-Specific Repositories
- Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing
- Enhanced and Evaluated Virtual Library
(EEVL)
- http://www.eevl.ac.uk/index.htm
- An award-winning free service, that provides quick and reliable
access to the best engineering, mathematics, and computing
information available on the Internet.
- Geotechnical, Rock and Water Resources
Library (GROW)
- http://www.grow.arizona.edu
- GROW is an award-winning collection of civil engineering
educational resources which includes approximately 250 interactive
learning objects created by the GROW team.
- Global Studies
- Global Education Online Depository and Exchange (GEODE)
- http://www.uw-igs.org/
- Maintained by the University of Wisconsin System's Institute
for Global Studies
- Queriable by country, region, file format, language, or
keyword
- Health and Life Sciences
- BioResearch
- http://biome.ac.uk
- Free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites
and resources covering the health and life sciences.
- Human Physiology
- The Harvey Project
- http://harveyproject.org
- An international collaboration of educators, researchers,
physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers
and graphic artists working together to build interactive,
dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web.
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
- Digital Scriptorium
- http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium
- Conceived as an image database of dated and datable medieval
and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources
into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research,
it has evolved into a general union catalog designed for the
use of paleographers, codicologists, art historians, textual
scholars and other researchers.
- Science, Math, Engineering and Technology Education
- SMETE
- http://alpha.smete.org/
- A dynamic online library and portal of services by the SMETE
Open Federation for teachers and students.
- The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
- http://www.dlese.org
- DLESE offers easy access to high quality educational resources
about the Earth system. The library is governed and developed
by a broad community of Earth science educators, and serves
the needs of K-16 learners, in both formal and informal venues.
- iLumina
- www.ilumina-dlib.org
- a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials
for science, mathematics, technology, and engineering. iLumina
currently contains over 1,000 individual resources and more
than 16 virtual collections covering the disciplines of biology,
chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics.
- Enhanced and Evaluated Virtual Library (EEVL)
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http://www.eevl.ac.uk/index.htm
- An award-winning free service, that provides "quick
and reliable access to the best engineering, mathematics,
and computing information available on the Internet."
Commercial Repositories
- Fathom
- http://fathom.com/
- Offers: online courses and seminars from Fathom's member institutions
and course partners; lectures, interviews, articles, performances
and exhibits by faculty, researchers and curators from its member
institutions; reference content spanning all disciplines and
fields of study; and suggestions for related learning resources,
including books and relevant Web links.
- Sample Interactive Learning Objects for Courseware
- http://www.capdm.com/demos/software/
- CAPDM (UK) develops courses and software applications for
Web distribution that are used by our customers to improve the
interactive, on-line learning experiences they deliver to their
students.
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