Related Projects, Services, Initiatives

Learning Object Repositories

This list focuses on repositories that mostly fulfill the following criteria: 1) contents for teaching and learning are hosted, 2) contents are available under open access license, 3) contents are potentially useful in an academic context.

Switzerland

  • umat.ch: Learning material for primary and secondary education. The service is operated by a non-profit association and is financed by donations and advertisments. BIP-Credits are needed to download material. Credits can be purchased or acquired by uploading material. Registration required.
  • eXperience online: Collection of e-business projects and case studies that were realized at Swiss Universities of Applied Science. The contents are mostly in german.

Europe

  • Ariadne
  • NDLR: National Digital Learning Repository (Ireland)
  • edu-sharing: Federation of e-learning repositories in Germany.
  • EdShare: University of Southampton
  • Xpert: Distributed repository of e-learning resources at Nottingham University
  • LOREnet: Learning Objects REpository network - Netherlands
  • Jorum: National initiative in the UK to collect and share learning and teaching materials. Free, worldwide access: JorumOpen, limited to UK institutions: JorumUK.

USA

International

Directories of Open Access Repositories