Content Management Ssystems
The EduTools site has been re-launched as a community-driven site, beginning with the Course Management System (CMS) site. Just like the original EduTools site, we continue to offer feature-by-feature product comparisons and decision-making supports. In addition, the site now includes the ability for any user to submit reviews for new products that haven’t already been reviewed or to add their own feedback as to how well specific products have implemented various features.
http://www.edutools.info/static.jsp?pj=4&page=HOME
There are several online repositories or collections of learning objects that target Higher Education faculty needs. A learning object can be as small as a paragraph or as large as a complete online course and come in the form of HTML/Text files, simulations, JAVA, Flash, QuickTime movies etc. Learning objects have arisen in response to the faculty need for high-quality, reusable instructional materials that are organized to be easily searchable. Online search engines that search the whole web simply bring back too many results. Instructional materials like polciy guides, assignments, simulations, websites, tuorials, matrices and other kinds of formats and media expressions are easier to find from within a contained collection.
http://www.irc.gmu.edu/resources/findingaid/twt_guides/repos.htm
This collection of links is intended to be representative of the scope and range of learning object repositories relevant to higher education.
http://archive.nmc.org/projects/lo/repositories.shtml
The Blog for repository administrator.
Les Carr is a researcher and lecturer who runs a research repository (eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk) for the School of Electronics and Computer Science in the University of Southampton in the UK. This blog is to record the day to day activities of a repository manager.
http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2009/01/repositories-vs-learning-object.html
Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories
With the worldwide adoption of the Internet as a ubiquitous platform for exchanging information, new opportunities are available for sharing educational experiences and material. Thousands of institutes worldwide offer access to courses, lessons, seminars, and exercises, typically stored in repositories and offered to users under a variety of formats. Due to their educational nature, these contents are often referred to as Learning Objects.
This article describes the “ProLearn Query Language”, a query language that we have developed for repositories of learning objects. PLQL is primarily a query interchange format, used by source applications (or PLQL clients) for querying repositories (or PLQL servers)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january08/ceri/01ceri.html#Top
Design Principles for a Distributed Learning Object Repository Network
These design principles are intended to govern the development of an architecture for a distributed learning object repository network (DLORN). The purpose of the principles is to guide the description of the components employed, the standards followed, and the principles governing the operation of the network.