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
- MIT OCW: MIT Open Courseware
- Academic Earth: Video recordings of lectures
International
- OCW Consortium: a worldwide community of hundreds of universities to foster and coordinate OCW projects.
- oercommons.org
- Merlot
- GLOBE: Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange. See also Ariadne Globe finder.
- Connexions: Consortium to share educational material
Directories of Open Access Repositories
- OpenDOAR: The Directory of Open Access Repositories
- Repository66.org: Map of open repositories
