Our Globe partner's repositories in North America:
LORNET
Learning Object Repository Network, Canada
The Learning Object Repository NETwork is a network of expertise grouping over one hundred researchers, research associates and professionals, and graduate students.
MERLOT
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online, USA
MERLOT provides you peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. You can share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. You can be recognized for your contributions to quality education.
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French Canada
Centre collégial de développement de matériel didactique (Bilingual)
The Collegial Centre for Educational Materials Development (CCDMD) is managed by the Collège de Maisonneuve. The CCDMD produces printed, digital and online materials for teaching staff and students throughout the Québec college system. Its mandate is both to ensure that students in the system have access to quality educational materials in both French and English, and to contribute to the development of these materials at the various stages of production.
CoPains (only in French)
Practice of community for mathematical and physics simulations. “CoPains’ is a networked community of practice (CoPeR) aiming at providing support to the development of professional domain knowledge by their participants. However, the learning objects created are readily available not only to members of the development community, but also to teachers in the field, students and other interested partners. This access is facilitated because of CoPains link to EduSoruce project where robust search and retrieval techniques and tools were developed.
Empairs (only in French)
Enpair.ca is an electronic catalogue simplifying searching and sharing of French digital learning objects specializing in science learning at the secondary school level.
Images Canada (bilingual)
Images Canada provides central search access to the thousands of images held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions. Through Images Canada, you can find images of the Canadian events, people, places and things that make up our collective heritage. You can search across all collections from virtually every page on the site by typing in a keyword in the search box at the top right hand corner of each page. If you would like to refine your search, try the Advanced Search feature. Search Help is also available. If you are looking for search ideas, try one of our Image Trails or browse through the Photo Essays.
For information about Images Canada partnering, from current partners and their contributed collections to how to be an Images Canada partner, go to the Partners page.
Le laboratoire virtuel (French only)
This repository holds small simulation modules and exercises for physics, mathematics and electricity.
MathFroq (bilingual
« MathFROG » is a playful and free resource site holding online games for 4 to 6th grade parents, teachers and students.
Prof Web (bilingual)
The resources available under this heading come from Eurêka, a repository hosting learning and teaching resources developed by the “Vitrine Technologie-Éducation”. Most resources have been produced by partners and some by other organizations working in the Collegial Education sector.
REA de DECclic (bilingual)
This repository holds a set of collegial learning objects. At the request of a number of teachers and the Education Ministry, the Corporation has made available some of the Learning Objects from the DEC virtuel. More than forty Learning Objects are now available. They come from the Biology NYA, Chemistry NYA, and French 103 courses.
ST@R – Studio Technologique d’apprentissage au récit (French only)
This repository presently holds around 800 pedagogical video resources.
Vecteur (French only)
Vecteur is a repository holding a set of free French learning objects for high school students and teachers in the pure sciences, mathematics, social sciences and others. All resources in this collection are free of use and may be modified, reproduced and used in all educational situations without restrictions.
Zoom sur l’expertise pédagogique (French only)
This repository contains a collection of videos of pedagogical expertise.
Euréka
The Eureka project is an initiative of Vitrine Technologie-Éducation within the framework of a Quebec-Wallonia-Brussels joint venture. It provides a collective catalog of teaching and learning resources gathered by various organizations involved in the production of ITC educational resources. Eureka’s shell is based on open source code. The data can be federated with other repositories built on a LOM application profile.
More content about "francocommunautés virtuelles" to come...
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English Canada
Bio-DiTRL
Contact person: Jerry Filipski - jerry.filipski@ualberta.ca
Bio-DiTRL is the Bio-Database of the Digital Imaging and Resource Laboratory. It is an online database with digital media that can be used to teach biology. Bio-DiTRL is open to instructors and students of biology for their personal, non-profit use. For profit or commercial use requires the author's permission. Fees are in place for for profit commercial use.
CLOE
The Co-operative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE) is a collaboration between Ontario universities and colleges for the development, sharing, and reuse of multimedia-rich learning resources. This occurs through the CLOE Learning Object repository.
EduSource Canada/ eRIB - Pan-canadian project
The eduSource Repository-In-A-Box (eRIB) is aimed at organizations or single users who wish to create a repository of learning object metadata records.
The eRIB can still be downloaded and provides all the basic tools to add a new node to the eduSource network. It consists of an open source database (eXist) with a built-in LOM (IEEE Learning Object Metadata) data structure and a set of tools to create, manage and find metadata records in the eduSource Network. Some minimal requirements must be met before installing the eRIB. This tool is available, but the project was completed in 2004.
TILE
Contact person: Jutta Treviranus jutta.trevira@gmail.com
The Inclusive Learning Exchange is a revolutionary learning object repository service that responds to the individual needs of the learner. TILE provides the authoring tools, repository architecture, and preference schema needed to support this learner-centric transformation. The service is now available as a functioning prototype and will be implemented across Canada by a network of learning communities from many sectors.
LearnAlberta.ca
Contact person: Carolyn Guinchard carolyn.guinchard@gov.ab.ca
LearnAlberta.ca supports lifelong learning by providing quality online resources to the Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K-12) community in Alberta. Students, teachers, and parents can use the site to find multimedia learning resources that are correlated to the Alberta programs of study. LearnAlberta.ca provides a reliable and innovative repository of resources developed by Alberta Education in consultation with stakeholders; it is available for users at any time on the Internet.
SOL*R - Shareable Online Learning Resources, BCcampus, Canada
Contact person: Scott Leslie sleslie@bccampus.ca
The system is primarily there to share CMS-developed content funded through the provincial Online Program Development Fund. It has both public and "private" content under either a Creative Commons or BC Commons license, and broadly inter-operates with the existing (5 or 6) course management systems in the province.
United States
FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
FREE was originally conceived in 1997 by a federal working group and launched a year later. It was redesigned and relaunched for the first time in November 2006. It is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by participating federal agencies.
Gateway to 21st Century Skills
The Gateway to 21st Century Skills is a consortium effort to provide teachers with quality materials and tools found on federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites.Global Campus
The Global Campus is a collaborative multimedia database containing a variety of outstanding educational materials such as images, sounds, text, and video to be used for nonprofit, educational purposes. The goal of the project is to share resources through technology by providing a central "campus" where institutions may make their resources available on the World Wide Web. We provide easy access to high quality materials which can be used for instructional development worldwide, while respecting intellectual property rights.
OCW Finder, COSL - Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, United States.
Contact person : Brandon Muramatsu, brandon.muramatsu@usu.edu
The OCW Finder is a "specialized" repository in that new materials must be from a recognized OpenCourseWare provider. It's very easy to determine what is and isn't relevant. Each course is published by a university, and in publishing the course, the university follows a workflow/editorial process to produce and make available the material.
An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
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SMETE
The SMETE Digital Library is a dynamic online library and portal of services by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students. Here you can access a wealth of teaching and learning materials as well as join this expanding community of science, math, engineering and technology explorers of all ages. Evaluation.
LoLa Exchange– Learning Objects, Learning Activities
LoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. It contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy. Evaluation.
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