Technologies for Learning, Thinking and Collaborating
http://www.knowledgeagora.com/subjects/index.cfm
I’m sure someone on the Edusource project would know more about this (maybe Stephen, since it does seem to be in his backyard). On the surface, it doesn’t look a lot different than the old Telecampus Online Course Directory, though drilling down into the subject menus reveals that the contents are not identical. – SWL
Quite a bit of these are specific to the context of training in the American military, but the Use Cases presented here are still helpful in detailing many of the ways in which people may want to work with a LOR. – SWL
http://www.academiccolab.org/resources/
FinalSummitReport.pdf
Following up on earlier posts about their wiki and draft list of repositories, the final report by Colin Holden on the recent ‘Global Repositories Summit’ has been released.
The report ultimately contains as many (more) questions than answers, but reflects what was evidently lots of quality interchange amongst the participants, and could be taken as an effective state of the learning object union. I found it hard not to come away with a sense that a lot of learning object/repository projects feel like solutions in search of a problem, or at least a solution that’s not sure which, out of many, problems they want to address. One of the best pieces of advice contained in the report was “Those at the Learning Repository Summit recommended that administrators of developing learning repository projects … know the communities that they are serving” and, I would add, the specific problem(s) they want to solve. While this may seem obvious, if you reach a point where you start to have functional software but are still having to persuade users into using it, you have to wonder a bit. – SWL
http://lionshare.its.psu.edu/main
“LionShare is an academic P2P system which will assist in the distribution of academic materials through the university’s network and beyond. The primary goal of LionShare is to provide a means for collaboration among faculty, students, departments, and eventually multiple universities.” Don’t have a lot more info on this – just one of a few nuggets brought back in a friend’s trip report from Educause.
Postscript – as a follow on, this article mentions a partnership with both OKI and the Canadian-based edusource project.- SWL
http://aa.uncw.edu/digilib/documents/
The Ilumina repository is one of the LOR projects funded by the National Science Foundation. As repositories go it seems fairly mature and appears to contain quite a bit of useful material. They have built this page of technical background info off to the side; much of it is specific to this site and maybe a bit arcane, but perhaps of interest is the flowchart of their review process, as well as an illustrated summary of their review process. – SWL
http://www.academiccolab.org/resources/
DraftRepositoriesList.pdf
There didn’t seem to be that many ‘new’ ones here, but it seems fairly comprehensive and well researched. – SWL
“This site supports continuing discussion of the many issues raised during our successful Learning Repository Summit over October 7th and 8th, 2003.” Looks fairly new but maybe worth keeping an eye on. – SWL
Based on a reminder from Alan’s latest post, I updated this page of known examples of RSS feeds from learning object repositories. I hadn’t necessarily planned on maintaining this, but what the heck, the original title of that page was pretentious enough to justify it – SWL