Suggested Repositories

It is also informative to visit existing repositories; review their policies and procedures. The following list is a sampling of active repositories; for a more extensive list, click here.

• Connexions (http://cnx.org/) Connexions is a non-profit start-up launched at Rice University in 1999. It is a self-described attempt to “reinvent how we write, edit, publish, and use textbooks and other learning materials and provided an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web.”

• LoLa Exchange (http://www.lolaexchange.org/) LoLa (Learning Objects, Learning Activities) is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. Housed at Wesleyan University, it contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy.

• MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org) MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) describes itself as “a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members, and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT’s vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.”

• WISC online (http://www.wisc-online.com/) The Wisconsin Online Resource Center is a digital library of learning objects. These resources are accessible to all Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) faculty at no cost and with copyright clearance for use in any WTCS classroom or online application. Other colleges, universities, and consortia from throughout the United States and around the world use the library with permission. Current use of the learning object repository exceeds 20,000 hits per day.

• OER Commons (http://oercommons.org/matters) Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons is a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K-12 through college covering a variety of subject areas. OER is open to everyone. And features lesson plans, lectures, labs, and syllabi that are open to adapt for your own use.

• Digital Marketplace (http://www.calstate.edu/ats/digital_marketplace/) The goal of the Digital Marketplace (DMP) initiative is to enable the effective distribution of network-based digital goods and resources in support of CSU academic programs.

• Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk) Intute is a free online service providing access to Web resources for education and research. The service was created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains over 100,000 records.

• For a list of additional repositories, click here.