Educate and Inform Leadership

The following list of resources is by no means exhaustive, but it is a good place to begin.

• Design and Evaluation, Pamela T. Northrup, editor. This book shows how practical models of learning objects solutions are being applied in education, organizations, industry, and the military. It includes diverse strategies used across these groups to apply learning objects—from the use of firmly-grounded theoretical contexts to practical tool-based solutions. The reader will find a thorough history, solid models, and real-world practices for using learning objects for instruction in a variety of settings. (ISBN 978-1599043340)

• Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians, Priscilla Caplan Geared to librarians who need a solid foundation to understanding and using metadata efficiently, Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians is the first stop for public and academic librarians, catalogers, and digital and reference librarians in their journey through the metadata landscape. Priscilla Caplan, one of the nation’s leading systems experts, presents the most comprehensive and clearest descriptions of the various forms of metadata, its applications, and how librarians can put it to work. (ISBN 978-0838908471)

• Advanced Distributed Learning The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative was formed as a developer and implementer of learning technologies across the Department of Defense (DoD). ADL employs a structured, adaptive, collaborative effort between the public and private sectors to develop the standards, tools and learning content for the learning environment of the future. The vision of the ADL Initiative is to provide access to the highest-quality learning and performance aids that can be tailored to individual needs and delivered cost-effectively, anytime and anywhere. http://www.adlnet.gov/

• Academic ADL Co-Lab The Academic Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab serves as the focal point for academia in promoting high quality, reusable content for distributed learning. This Co-Lab is the ADL academic link to test, evaluate and demonstrate ADL-compliant tools and technologies to enhance teaching and learning. http://www.academiccolab.org/

• Reusability.org This site offers insight into ways to increase access of learners to educational content and opportunities. It offers the full text of the book The Instructional Use of Learning Objects, edited by David Wiley. Website users may also participate in discussions of issues related to learning objects, instruction, and learning. http://reusability.org/

• Reusable Learning The website of the Reusable Learning Project, which focuses is digital learning resources including web-based content, digital documents, applets and software, simulations, data sets, interactive learning environments and multimedia resources. The project’s goal is to increase the value and impact of digital learning resources by making them easier to reuse, or to modify for reuse, in multiple contexts and in multiple learning environments. http://reusablelearning.org/

• The SREB Educational Technology Cooperative This multistate cooperative represents more than 3,300 school districts and nearly 800 colleges and universities in the 16 Southeastern Regional Education Board states. It monitors and reports on a wide array of educational technology topics and includes the State Virtual Schools, Digital Learning Content, and SCORE (Sharable Content Object Repositories for Education) initiatives. www.sreb.org/educationaltechnology
• OnCoRe Blueprint Wiki The OnCoRe Blueprint wiki offers a forum for ongoing discussion repository issues and provides a community of practice for repository developers.http://www.oncoreblueprint.org