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Apple Learning Interchange
A searchable database of rich media resources for digital teaching and learning developed by educators and by the Apple Learning Interchange itself to encourage the use of IT in education and to improve educational practice generally.
Scope: several hundred "exhibits", mainly at school- rather than higher education level
Copyright/licensing: copyright, Apple Computer, Inc. all rights reserved
EducaNext
EducaNext is a service supporting the creation and sharing of knowledge for Higher Education. It is open to any member of the academic or research community.
EducaNext fosters collaboration among educators and researchers, allowing them to:
1. participate in Knowledge Communities
2. communicate with experts in their field
3. exchange Learning Resources
4. work together on the production of educational material: textbooks, lecture notes, case studies, simulations, etc.
5. deliver distributed educational activities: lectures, courses, workshops, case study discussions, etc.
6. distribute electronic content under license.
Scope: 2,500 registered users, 1,000 learning resources in languages such as English, German, French...
Restrictions: users must register in order to access resources, and must be a member of an academic institution
Eduforge
Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education. Individuals are welcome to use its community resources or start a project space for collaboration. Eduforge is designed to provide tools for collaboration at two levels:
1. The Eduforge Community is for everyone with an interest in education to share their thoughts and experience, and
2. Eduforge Projects supports more focused research, discussions, and software development for education.
Register a project of your own, or request to join one of the many innovative project communities.
EFRARD (Espace Francophone pour la Recherche, le Développement et l’Innovation)
English name: Francophone space for Research, Development and Innovation
EFRARD aims to build an RTD actors ontology for the Francophone community using a semantic wiki for knowledge management and collaborative RTD.
The fundamental role of eCollaboration between RTD actors such as researchers, experts, and organizations is to improve communication and reduce cost. The introduction of ICT into organisations provides opportunities and challenges. For example, the EFRARD portal wiki represents a solution to this challenge, as it leads to new ways of interacting both with other organisations and also with individuals. The objectives of the EFRARD project are to stimulate more international collaboration and sharing of knowledge between RTD actors in Francophone community.
See the EFRARD wiki page for more information.
iBerry.com
Home to the Higher Education Links List (HELL), which provides information and resources for educators, researchers and others with an interest in higher education. The listing is in two parts:
1. The Open Courseware Directory - annotated links to publicily available courseware covering most academic subjects - lecture notes, handouts, slides, tutorial material, exam questions, quizzes, videos, demonstrations etc. from universities and colleges around the world.
2. Resources - annotated links to the best information and resource sites for Higher Education - includes sections on distance education, educational technology, subject-specific resources, job opportunities, women, plagiarism and humour.
iBerry.com also provides a higher education news service, message board and academic chat.
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Specifically, MERLOT is:
1. a continually growing catalogue of online learning materials, peer reviews, learning assignments, and user comments, organized by discipline into specific discipline communities and created to help faculty enhance their instruction, that anyone can use for free;
2. an international consortium of partners and affiliates who cooperate to continually create, expand, and refine MERLOT in order to transform and improve higher education;
3. a community of individual members, from academia, business, and professional organizations, who strive to share and enrich their teaching and learning experiences by contributing to MERLOT;
4. a technology initiative with its own infrastructure and dynamically designed set of technology tools and software development policies created to help faculty integrate high quality online instructional technology resources into their courses effectively, easily, and enjoyably.
Scope: 14,307 resources
For an example of how resources in MERLOT may be used, read the National University of Rwanda OER story
World Lecture Hall
World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. Some courses are delivered entirely over the Internet. Others are designed for students in residence. Many fall somewhere in between. In all cases, they can be visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet. Materials include syllabi, course notes, assignments, and audio and video streaming. World Lecture Hall is a project of the Center for Instructional Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Scope: Materials in 83 subject areas

[edit] Repositories for podcasts and videos

Academic Earth
An attractive, easy-to-use site that for users to find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.
Scope: 1,500 videos from 7 US institutions
EduTube
EduTube is an educational video search website where one can find, watch and download videos from different hosting sites (such as YouTube, Google Video and MetaCafe), using education relevant search criteria. For example, educational videos can be found according to category (e.g. Biology, Chemistry), video type (e.g. lecture, animation), duration, educational level, language and popularity (views per day). It is similar to a wiki in that anyone can add educational videos to the EduTube database and help classify them according to the above criteria.
Scope: over 800 videos
UChannel
A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world. Available for downloading and streaming in many formats, including mp3, mp4, and in some cases, mpeg2 for re-broadcast. All content is free.
YouTube Edu
Portal for all videos and channels from colleges and universities with a presence on YouTube (mainly US institutions).
World Lecture Project
A directory with links to audio and video lectures from academics around the world, created by a group of freelance academics from Berlin, Germany. Registered users may add content and edit lecture descriptions. The site will also soon host forums for those concerned and involved in science and teaching.
Scope: 749 lectures

[edit] National and international repository initiatives

ARIADNE
At its core, a distributed network of learning repositories. ARIADNE was created to exploit and further develop the results of the ARIADNE and ARIADNE II European Projects, which created tools and methodologies for producing, managing and reusing computer-based pedagogical elements and telematics-supported training curricula.
Scope: resources are available in many European languages, primarily English, French, Italian, German and Dutch
GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials)
A US consortium effort to provide educators and learners with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources, including activities, lesson plans, online projects and assessment items suitable for use in the classroom, found on the websites of some 600 consortium members, including US government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit and commercial organizations.
Scope: over 40,000 records
ICONEX
This project aimed to investigate the key issues surrounding the identification, description, location, use and integration of interactive content through technical development, UK national consultation and exemplar aggregation. Although no longer conducting research, it has established a repository of interactive learning content, with the aim of acting as an enabler or broker for exchange, trade or, outside of the UK Higher and Further Education community, sale of interactive content.
Scope: approx 80 learning objects
JORUM
Funded by JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee), JORUM is a collaborative venture in UK Higher and Further Education to collect and share learning and teaching materials, allowing their reuse and repurposing, and standing as a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials.
Copyright/licensing: own licensing system for contributors and users
Restrictions: restricted to teaching and support staff in registered UK Higher and Further Education institutions
The Le@rning Federation
The Le@rning Federation is an initiative of the state, territory and federal governments of Australia and New Zealand. It is developing high-quality online curriculum content for years P-10 (preschool to year 10) in two formats: interactive, multimedia learning objects and digital resources. The materials are designed to engage students and support teachers and will be freely available to all schools in Australia and New Zealand.
Scope: 4,581 items of online content
Copyright/licensing; copyright and other intellectual property rights are owned by the joint venture companies Curriculum Corporation and education.au limited on behalf of the governments of Australia and of the Australian states and territories
Restrictions: restricted to schools in Australian states/territories and New Zealand
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)
A growing library of high-quality online courses for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement. Courses in the NROC library are contributed by developers from leading online-learning programmes across the US. All courses are assessed to ensure they meet high standards of scholarship, instructional value and presentational impact. NROC works with developers and contributes resources to improve course quality and to provide ongoing maintenance. Courses are designed to cover the breadth and depth of topics based on generally accepted US curricula and can also be customized within a course management system. NROC partners with academic institutions, publishers, teaching organizations, US state and federal agencies, international distributors and others to create a global distribution network to provide courses to students, teachers and the general public at little or no cost.
Scope: 24 courses
Copyright/licensing; copyright Monterey Institute for Technology
Restrictions: users must apply for a licence; some may be charged a small fee
NARCIS (National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System)
Developed to increase the visibility and retrievability of Dutch scientific research, NARCIS provides access to scientific information consisting of (full-text) publications from all Dutch universities, KNAW, NWO and a number of research institutes, the datasets of the DANS Institute, as well as research news and descriptions of research projects, institutes and researchers.
Scope: 210,887 scientific publications (172,477 full-text), 3,574 data sets in English and Dutch
NLN (National Learning Network) Materials
Working in partnership with subject experts and commercial developers, BECTA's (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) NLN Materials Team has commissioned and managed the development of Further Education e-learning materials for use in Virtual Learning Environments. The materials span the UK post-16 Further Education curriculum and are designed to be fitted easily into existing teaching.
Scope: over 800 hours of materials
Restrictions: restricted to staff and students of UK Further Education institutions

[edit] Subject-specific national repositories

CITIDEL (Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library)
A collaboration between Hofstra University, the College of New Jersey, Pennsylvania State University, Villanova University and Virginia Tech, as part of the US National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library Project, to create a portal to computing education. CITIDEL is a digital library of educational resources for the computing field, harvested from ten differerent source collections.
Scope: 488,256 resources for computing
CSTC (Computing Science Teaching Center)
A repository of peer-reviewed teaching resources for college and graduate level computer science education. The CSTC is designed to facilitate access to quality teaching materials developed worldwide. It is endorsed by the US Association of Computing Machinery and funded by the US National Science Foundation. Metadata for materials are created by users. CSTC is one of the source collections for CITIDEL.
Scope: over 10,000 resources for computing
DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education)
Funded by the US National Science Foundation, DLESE provides learners and educators at all levels with access to materials to support Earth system science education. The collection includes lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, assessment activities, curricula and online courses. The site also provides support services to help users effectively create, use and share OER, as well as communication networks to facilitate interactions and collaborations across the field of earth science.
Scope: over 25,000 learning objects for the earth sciences
Copyright/licensing: custom open licence
EEVL (Enhanced and Evaluated Virtual Library)
Aims to provide access to quality networked engineering, mathematics and computing resources, and be the UK national focal point for online access to information in these subjects. It is run by a team of information specialists from a number of universities and institutions in the UK, led by Heriot Watt University. EEVL's target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education, as well as anyone else working, studying or looking for information in Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. EEVL Xtra allows users to cross-search a further 20 databases.
Scope: over 10,000 resources for engineering, mathematics and computing
Restrcitions: users will be charged a fee to access some content
HEAL (Health Education Assets Library)
Part of the US National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library Project, the goal of the project is to create a collection of digital teaching and learning resources for medical students and professionals. Users can search the main Reviewed Collection, a collection of materials awaiting review and 12 affiliated collections. Users can submit materials for review and possible inclusion in the main collection. HEAL is hosted by the University of Utah, UCLA and the Unversity of Oklahoma.
Scope: 21,691 resources for medicine
Humbul Humanities Hub
Part of the UK's Resource Discovery Network, and hosted by the University of Oxford, Humbal is dedicated to discovering, evaluating and cataloguing online resources in the humanities. Resources include educational materials, and links to institutions, academic research projects and companies offering educational software. Materials are submitted by users and reviewed and catalogued by on-site staff. Humbul also maintains a Virtual Training Suite of subject-based self-learning Internet skills tutorials.
Scope: resources for 33 humanities subjects; 10 online tutorials
iLumina
Part of the US National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library Project, iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics and computer science. Resources range from small learning objects, such as individual images and video clips, to entire courses and several virtual collections. Metadata captures both technical and education-specific information about each resource. Users may contribute their own resources. iLumina was developed by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Collegis, Inc., Virginia Tech, Georgia State University, Grand Valley State University and the College of New Jersey.
Scope: over 1,500 resources for science, mathematics and computing
MIA (Marxists Internet Archive)
A digital library since 1990 with archivists from 33 different countries. MIA contains the writings of 592 authors representing a complete spectrum of political, philosophical, and scientific thought, generally spanning the past 200 years. MIA contains these writings in 45 different languages, comprising a total size of over 53,000 documents and 29 GB of data, all created through the work of volunteers around the world.
Scope: 53,000 resources for politics, philosophy, history
NEEDS (National Engineering Education Delivery System)
A digital library of learning resources for engineering education. NEEDS provides web-based access to a database of learning resources where learners and instructors can search for, locate, download and comment on resources to aid their learning or teaching process. It is possible to search for resources suitable for mobile devices (so-called "Learning Everywhere" resources). NEEDS also supports a multi-tier review system for resources, from an industry-sponsored national award competition, to user-based reviews of individual learning resources.
Scope: 1,220 resources for science, engineering and mathematics at the higher education level
Restrictions: users will be charged a fee to access some content
NSDL (National Science Digital Library)
Created by the US National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. NSDL provides an organized point of access to content that is aggregated from a variety of other digital libraries, NSF-funded projects, and NSDL-reviewed web sites. It also provides access to services and tools that enhance the use of this content in a variety of contexts. NSDL is designed primarily for school-level educators, but anyone can access and search the library at no cost. Access to most of the resources is free; however, some content providers require a nominal fee or subscription to retrieve their specific resources.
Scope: resources for science, technology, engineering and mathematics in 554 collections
Restrictions: users will be charged a fee to access some content
SeSDL (Scottish electronic Staff Development Library)
A web-based resource centre designed to encourage the sharing and reuse of staff development materials. The main focus of the materials is the use of ICT in teaching and learning. Staff developers can assemble components in order to build customised courses. Tools are being provided which can be used to customise material in the Library to the specific "look-and-feel" of individual institutions. Users can also add materials to the Library. The SeSDL is a collaborative project of the Universities of Edinburgh, Paisley and Strathclyde.
Scope: 298 staff development materials
Restrictions: access to materials restricted to staff of Scottish Higher Education institutions; other users may browse material descriptions
SMETE Digital Library
A dynamic online library and portal of services from the US SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students. Users can access teaching and learning materials, as well as join an expanding community of science, math, engineering and technology explorers of all ages and levels of education. Students have access to resources for independent study, while instructors can find learning materials to use in the classroom.
Scope: 15,885 resources for science, technology, engineering and mathematics

[edit] Regional and institutional repository initiatives

CAREO (Campus Alberta Repository of Learning Objects)
A project supported by Alberta Learning that has as its primary goal the creation of a searchable, Web-based collection of multidisciplinary teaching materials for educators in Alberta Province and beyond. The collection is made up of materials submitted by project members and reviewed by an editorial board.
Scope: 4,132 resources
CLOE (Co-operative Learning Object Exchange)
A collaboration betweeen Ontario univeristies and colleges for the development, sharing and reuse of multimedia-rich learning resources. CLOE is developing a "virtual market economy" for learning objects. The virtual market encourages collaboration across institutions to pool ideas and co-ordinate development: the most successful resources - those re-used the most - provide the most exchange credit for the institutions developing them. Resources only used by the original developers do not accrue exchange credits, thus providing a substantial incentive for collaboration. Metadata are created by submitting users.
Copyright/licensing: Creative Commons licences
Restrictions: restricted to staff and students of publically funded Canadian universities
Fathom Archive
Fathom Knowledge Network Inc., founded by Columbia University, launched in the spring of 2000 with the goal of providing high quality educational resources to a global audience through the Internet. The Fathom academic consortium grew to include 14 leading educational and cultural institutions. The website ceased operations in March 2003, as part of a reorganization of Columbia's digital media activities. The Fathom Archive enables users to continue to access the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions, including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and free seminars.
Scope: resources include 96 seminars
Copyright/licensing: generally copyright
Restrictions: users must pay to access some resources
IDEAS (Interactive Dialogue with Educators from Across the State)
Created for educators in the State of Wisconsin, but available to all, the collection is made up of high quality web-based resources, including lesson plans, teaching resources and professional development resources, sorted by grade/level of education and subject, selected by teams of Wisconsin educators and aligned to State educational standards.
Scope: 510 resources at the higher education level
LEARNet
LEARNet materials are designed and produced by Hong Kong academics for students in a range of disciplines. It is funded by the University Grants Committee and is based at The University of Hong Kong with a management team drawn from all the local tertiary institutions.
Maricopa Learning eXchange
An electronic warehouse for the exchange of ideas, examples and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges. 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.
Scope: 1,355 "packages"
Copyright/licensing: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license
University of California eScholarship Repository
A repository of academic research output, including working papers and postprints of previously published, peer-reviewed articles, and seminar materials, selected and deposited by individual University of California units and faculty. The repository is a service of the California Digital Library and is powered by the Berkeley Electronic Press. The repository is Open Archives Compliant.
Scope: 10,810 papers
University of Mauritius VCILT (Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies) Learning Objects Repository
A project to build a web site where learning resources from the University of Mauritius and from the Internet are gathered for later use. Permanent University lecturers are automatically registered in the LOR and can submit resources.
Scope: 476 resources in English and French
U-Now - University of Nottingham open courseware Repository
U-Now acts as a window onto the University of Nottingham's activities. It aims to increase learning opportunities for those who are unable to undertake formal qualifications and to contribute to the advancement of pedagogy across the academic community.
Resources are drawn from across the range of degree programmes offered and showcase a range of teaching and learning activities.
Scope: 87 learning resources
Copyright/licensing: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license
Wisc-Online (Wisconsin Online Resource Center)
A digital library of objects developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects for the online environment. Objects are freely accessible to all WTCS faculty for use in classroom or online applications. Other colleges, universities and consortia around the world may apply to use the library.
Scope: 2,041 resources, Copyright Wisc-Online
Restrictions: users outside the Wisconsin Technical College System need to apply for permission to access resources

[edit] Subject-specific regional and institutional repositories

Exploratories
A project of Brown University's Computer Graphics Research Group to create a set of exemplary Web-based learning objects (Java applets) that teach concepts in introductory computer graphics at the college and graduate level. Learning objects are characterized by their flexibility, interactivity, hypertextual curriculum frameworks, and use of explorable 2D and 3D worlds. Users can download complete Java applets, or build their own from the components collection. The project also publishes the results of its research into creating useful learning objects, and is working toward the creation of a complete Design Strategy Handbook.
Scope: 71 java applets for science and mathematics
GEODE (Global Education Online Depository & Exchange)
Maintained by the University of Wisconsin System's Institute for Global Studies, GEODE provides users with access to multimedia instructional resources for Global Studies. Users can search by country, region, file format and language, as well as key word. They may also submit their own resources.
Scope: over 130 resources for global studies
LoLa Exchange
The aim of the LoLa project is to help staff at Wesleyan University keep track of the Learning Objects that they are developing, and to present them in a common environment. LoLa will allow staff to discover materials developed by other faculty, and provide opportunities for collaboration within the academic disciplines on the Wesleyan campuses that have begun to develop and use Learning Objects. LoLa is also the home to a collection of Information Literacy Learning Objects that are being developed as part of a collaborative Information Literacy Project that Wesleyan, Trinity, and Connecticut Colleges are working on.
Scope: 42 resources, with a particular bias towards information literacy

[edit] Individual repository initiatives

ICTlogy ICT4D Courses
A Learning Objects Repository focused on development and cooperation for development, with a strong commitment to Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), created by Ismael Peña of the Open University of Catalonia.
Scope: 4 learning objects for ICT4D
Copyright/licensing: Creative Commons licences
Open Educational Resources (OER) Index
An interesting list of OER resources compiled by Zaid Ali Alsagoff (UNITAR Sdn Bhd - Malaysia). He provides annotation in order to direct investigation of the links. The list is a very short, very easy summary of websites, which provide open educational resources.
Textbook Revolution
A student-run non-profit website, started by Jason Turgeon, that catalogs and mirrors free textbooks and related material in a wide range of subjects at all levels (with a particular concentration of undergraduate-level books). Books range from GIF scans to PDF files to Flash presentations. The site is searchable and fully tagged for easy browsing.
Scope: 254 textbooks in 12 subject areas


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