WEB LINKS
http://www.learning-objects.net/modules.php?name=Web_Links
LEARNING OBJECTS TRAINING
CIMC
center for instructional materials and computing school of education @ university of wisconsin - madison
Learning Object Examples
Brain Connection, web resource from Scientific Learning
http://www.brainconnection.com/Get Smarter, Understand Math and Science Concepts
http://www.getsmarter.org/mstv/flash_index.cfmPBS - Misunderstood Minds
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/attention.htmlVision Learning - learning modules written by professional educators and scientists
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/index.phpWhat is the World Made of? from the Particle Adventure
http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/frameless/fundamental.htmlWhat is MetaData? from the Academic Colab
http://projects.aadlcolab.org/scourse/latestgreatest/4_2_1/4_2_1_P1.htmTECHNOLOGY HISTORY
Students can note what technology appeared in the home and when it appeared.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tech/#KEYBOARDING SKILLS
http://www.outreach.utk.edu/iei/laap/NSTI_Computer_Concepts/keyboard.swf
HOW THE WEB WORKS
Basics of the URL and general overall
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/webworks.html
HOW SEARCH ENGINES WORK
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/search.html
MATH:
TEMPERATURE AND MATHEMATICAL WORD PROBLEMS
http://www.unf.edu/~tbratina/integers/temp_multiply.htm
INTERGERS (simple)
http://www.unf.edu/~tbratina/integers/tiles.htm
SCIENCE
PERIODIC TABLE
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index.asp?objID=SCI102
USING A TRIPLE BEAM BALANCE
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index.asp?objID=GCH202
SOCIAL STUDIES
EGYPT
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
VARIOUS TOPICS
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_global.html
CONFUSION BETWEEN EFFECT AND AFFECT
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index.asp?objID=WCN5002
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BLOOM'S TAXONOMY
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index.asp?objID=OTT402
LEARNING STYLES
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index.asp?objID=PHR1501
Resources
Learning Objects Tutorial "All about learning objects" from TechLearn
http://www.eduworks.com/LOTT/tutorial/CLOE stories - About Learning Objects
http://learnware.uwaterloo.ca/projects/CCCO/cloe_about.htmlStephen Downe's Learning Objects
http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/downes/naweb/Learning_Objects.htmThe Instructional Use of Learning Objects, edited by David A. Wiley
http://reusability.org/read/
LO Resources at Academic ADL Co-Lab
http://www.academiccolab.org/initiatives/repositories.htmlFaculty Development and Learning Object Technology:
Bridging the Gap, by Patricia Ploetz
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
http://www.uwsa.edu/ttt/articles/ploetz3.htmFaculty and Staff Development - Preparing Teachers to Use Learning Objects
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=961Scaling Online Delivery Through Learning Object Content Management
Maggie McVay-Lynch, Portland State University
http://booboo.webct.com/2004/papers/McVay-Lynch.pdf
General Repositories
Apple Learning Interchange - Learning Resources
Searchable database of "thousands of Internet resources that can be valuable for teaching and learning"
Blue Web’n
Part of the SBC Knowledge Network Explorer, Blue Web’n provides users with access to over 1800 educational sites covering all ages and subject matters. Metadata for materials include Dewey Decimal Numbers. Materials are rated by onsite staff and users may suggest sites but do not apply metadata.
Canada's SchoolNet
Mandated by the Canadian government to work in partnership with the provincial and territorial government to connect Canadian schools and libraries, SchoolNet provides users with access to over 5,000 teacher approved learning resources for teachers, students, and parents.
CAREO
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.
CLOE: Cooperative Learning Object Exchange
CLOE was founded at the University of Waterloo and currently consists of 17 university partners in Ontario. Of significance is that CLOE attempts to foster a collaborative model for the development, use, and reuse of learning objects. Fundamental to this is the creation of a virtual market economy whereby virtual credits are awarded for objects that are used and reused the most. Membership in CLOE is closed. You must register to use the services of CLOE.
Connexions
The Connexions Project at Rice University has created an open repository of educational materials and tools to promote sharing and exploration of knowledge as a dynamic continuum of interrelated concepts. Available free of charge to anyone under open-content and open-source licenses, Connexions offers high-quality, custom-tailored electronic course material, is adaptable to a wide range of learning styles, and encourages students to explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines.
Education Network Australia (EdNA)
Supported by education.au, a non-profit company limited by guarantee and owned by the Australian education and training Ministers, EdNA provides users with access to over 16,000 materials of interest to teachers and learners of all levels, covering a wide range of subjects.
Educational Object Economy (EOE) Learning Objects: Java Applet Library
browse by subject or search by keyword
features 2,600 Java applets
a fair number of dead links
Educational Software Components of Tomorrow (ESCOT)
"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"
European Knowledge Pool System (ARIADNE)
Developed to deliver educational content throughout Europe, the KPS facilitates the sharing and reuse of educational resources. This encouragement of the discovery and reuse of these materials encourages an increasing recognition that learning object production is a valid field of activity for academics. The collection contains materials of a wide variety of interactivity levels in many European languages, primarily English, French, Italian, German, and Dutch.
Fathom Archive
The Fathom website ceased operations in March 2003, as part of a reorganization of Columbia University's digital media activities. Even so, Columbia will provide this Fathom archive so that interested users may continue to access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions. Columbia encourages you to browse this archive of online learning resources, including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and free seminars.
Filamentality
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
"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.
Interactive Dialogue with Educators from Across the State (IDEAS)
"provides Wisconsin (and other) educators access to high-quality, highly usable, teacher-reviewed web-based resources for curricula, content, lesson plans, professional development and other selected resources"
Searchable by subject, grade level, and keyword.
Features advanced search
KnowledgeAgora
A "Learning Object MetaData Repository" based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Registered users may take advantage of additional features.
Interactive University (IU) Project
A collaboration of several diverse UC-Berkeley academic departments, research units, and museums, and Bay Area K-12 schools and community organizations. The IU explores how University/K-12 partnerships can best use the Internet to support schools and families.
Learning Resource Catalogue (LRC)
http://www.edtec.unsw.edu.au/frames_inter.cfm?area=2&page=S_LRC.cfm
The Learning Resource Catalogue (LRC) is an EDTeC initiative that has been endorsed by the U21 Consortium. The LRC provides the mechanism for academics at UNSW and other U21 Collegial institutions to manage and share their teaching resources online. As such, the LRC represents a means of collegial interaction for the purpose of providing learning resources (learning objects) for students at all levels.
Learn-Alberta
Contains multimedia learning materials for use by K-12 educators within Alberta.
Learning-Objects.net
Part of a larger collection of resources and forums that inform educators about the potential uses of learning objects and encourages their use and creation.
LoLa Exchange: Learning Objects, Learning Activities
"LOLA serves multiple purposes. At its home at Wesleyan, it serves as a way for us to keep track of the Learning Objects that we are developing as part of our Learning Objects project. We will be able to use LOLA to present our Learning Objects rather than having to make a container for each object by hand. It will also allow us to discover materials developed by other faculty that we might otherwise not know about. Within the context of the group of schools participating in this project, it will make visible materials that we otherwise would not know are available at our institutions."
Maricopa Learning Exchange
Established by the Maricopa Community Colleges in Arizona the Maricopa Learning Exchange provides users with access to over 500 materials on various subjects. Materials, submitted by users within the Maricopa community college network, ranges from teaching materials and pedagogical tips to links to sites containing educational content. The site has an RSS feed to allow communication of new records. Users are permitted to comment on resources.
MERLOT
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.
Merlot-CATS: Community of Academic Technology Staff
MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
MIT OpenCourseWares
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.”
National Learning Network: Materials
The National Learning Network, a government-supported project based in the UK, was inaugurated in 1999 to encourage the adoption of Information and Learning Technology in post-16 education. The NLN collection, which was launched in 2001, exists in order to provide high quality materials with which to encourage this adoption. This collection is intended to eventually contain a large variety of materials, including lesson plans.
PBS TeacherSource
TeacherSource PBS permits teachers to search for materials that will be useful in their pedagogy. Users are permitted to create a user profile with which they will be recommended resources. Users locate materials through a simple browsing interface that allows them to locate materials according to their educational level and topic
Problem-Based Learning Clearinghouse
The Problem-Based Learning Clearinghouse is a “collection of problems and articles to assist educators in using problem-based learning.” Materials are accompanied by notes and supplementary materials from teachers regarding their uses in the classroom setting. Accompanying materials also include listings of student and teacher resources that may aid in the carrying out of the problem.
Stòr Cùram
Under development, this project will provide social work educators with an easy to use web-based library of learning resources, or learning object repository. The repository will make it simple for social work educators to search, find, and download the learning resources they need. It will also support the sharing and exchange of learning materials by all members of the Scottish social work education community.
Splash
SPLASH uses "peer to peer" technology (Sun Microsystems JXTA) so users can maintain mini-repositories on their computers. These mini-repositories are linked together so users can search all the POOL sites from their own SPLASH applications.
A product of the Canada-based Portal for Online Objects in Learning (POOL) project, a consortium of several educational, private and public, sector organizations to develop an infrastructure for learning object repositories.
Wisconsin Online Resource Center - Wisc-Online Learning Object Project
Learning Object Development Process
Chitwood, K., May, C., Bunnow, D., & Langan, T. (2000). "Battle stories from the field: Wisconsin online resource center learning objects project," in D. A. Wiley, ed., The Instructional Use of Learning Objects: Online Version. Retrieved May 18, 2001, from the World Wide Web:
Discipline-specific Repositories
Computer Science
Computer Science Teaching Center
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Association for Computing Machinery Education Board, the CSTC collection consist of roughly over one hundred materials useful in college and graduate level computer science education. Much of the material is not browser based but is downloaded directly and run off the user’s system. Metadata for materials are created by users.
Computing and Information Technology Interactive Technology Interactive Digital Education Library (CITIDEL)
CITIDEL serves to “establish, operate, and maintain a part of the NSDL that will serve the computing education community in all its diversity and at all levels.” CITIDEL activities include community development, expanding through workshops knowledge and skills regarding the development and use of online educational content.
Exploratories
This project, dedicated to producing electronic materials for use within courses has developed 71 Java Applets demonstrating concepts in science and mathematics. The materials are for college and graduate teaching. Materials have no searchable metadata but can be accessed by browsing the project’s site.
Global Studies
Global Education Online Depository and Exchange (GEODE)
maintained by the University of Wisconsin System's Institute for Global Studies
permits queries by country, region, file format, language, or keyword
Health and Life Sciences
BIOME
Free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering the health and life sciences.
Bio-DiTRL
a non-profit, peer-reviewed journal of digital teaching resources for biology
downloads require subscription
Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
Funded by the NSF, DLESE provides educators and learners with access to thousands of resources that support Earth system science education. The collection includes resources such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curricula, online courses, and other materials. DLESE prioritizes community building, which is reflected in its Web page, containing sections on using online resources in education, news from the fields of earth science and science education and information on resources for professionals within the earth sciences. Resources are contributed by the science and education community individually or as thematic collections, and include both formally reviewed and unreviewed items.
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
Conceived in 1998, and having begun its collection development in 2002, HEAL provides “building-block multimedia items such as images, videos, and animations, and textual materials such as cases and quiz questions.” Its current prototype collection of over 1,000 materials contains resources useful to medical students and medical professionals. The collection will eventually contain materials of use to all educational levels. The collection currently contains images and interactive tutorials.
Human Physiology
The Harvey Project
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.
Humanities
Digital 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.
Has evolved into a general union catalog designed for the use of paleographers, codicologists, art historians, textual scholars and other researchers.
Humbul Humanities Hub
Developed in 1999 by the University of Oxford’s Joint Information Systems Committee – Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Humbul Humanities Hub is a catalog of humanities resources online. The project hopes that its site will be the “first choice for accessing online humanities resources.”
LearningLanguages.net
LearningLanguages.net is a portal that brings together online foreign language resources for English-speaking K-12 students and teachers of French, Spanish and Japanese. The project was created and is maintained and enhanced by staff at the Internet Scout Project.
Science, Math, Engineering and Technology Education
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education
Initially developed in 1992 as a collection of K-12 teaching materials within mathematics and the sciences, and information concerning federal funding for education, ENC has come to deliver a wide range of digital content to educators. Online lessons and activities are listed within the ENC online catalog of educational materials.
Enhanced and Evaluated Virtual Library (EEVL)
An award-winning free service, that provides "quick and reliable access to the best engineering, mathematics, and computing information available on the Internet."
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. Resources in iLumina are cataloged in the MARC and NSDL metadata formats.
Learning Matrix
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Learning Matrix collection provides access to about a 1,000 online resources useful to faculty teaching introductory science and mathematics courses as well as providing instructional and pedagogical training. Learning Matrix resources promote inquiry and problem based learning in college mathematics, science, and technology classes. The collection includes simulations, tutorials, research articles, and video footage illustrating excellent teaching techniques. The Learning Matrix is housed at the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Science and Mathematics Education (ENC), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Math Forum
One of the oldest collections of learning materials on the Internet, The Math Forum is a leading center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet. The Math Forum is a learning repository for both interactive and text-based materials as well as a site for mathematics educators and learners to engage in person-to-person interactions, and discuss and exchange educational products and services. The Math Forum encourages the exchange of educational materials by facilitating dialog and connections among educators.
National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS)
A digital library of resources for educators and learners within engineering. Records are drawn from various smaller collections. Cataloging records contain multiple searchable fields including type of learning resource and publication year. Metadata is based on IEEE LOM. The collection will soon be searchable by user education level and for the existence of peer reviews.
National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL)
Now under construction with funding from the National Science Foundation. "The NSDL is likely to be the largest and most heterogeneous digital library yet built."
SMETE
a dynamic online library and portal of services by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students
Commercial/Hybrid Repositories
Telecampus
A directory of over 60,000 online courses and resources available from pay and free collections. Materials range in length from one hour modules to full semester of year long courses. Materials cover a wide range of subjects and educational levels.
XanEdu
Offers digital coursepacks and textbooks
