Academic IT Web Resources

CAREO: Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects
Adopted by many institutions as a way to manage digital resources for use in teaching and learning. CAREO currently has almost 4,000 learning objects available to its 700 users, and adoption is increasing every month.
Category: Course Materials
Source: daveh@princeton.edu
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Collaborate!
Established in conjunction with MLA President Linda Hutcheon's call for "alternatives to the adversarial academy" (MLA Convention, December 2000), this site provides a clearinghouse for information about ongoing collaborative efforts and invites the participation of all who wish to move beyond the academy's traditional agonistic individualism.
Category: Course Materials
Source: hood@princeton.edu
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Digital Photobiology Compendium
At the DPC you can compile a manual of resources to suit your individual needs as a learner. If you're an instructor, you can connect with other Photobiology instructors who teach similar materials. If you would like to help contribute to the PDC, you can submit and help develop Photobiology modules.
Category: Course Materials
Source: hood@princeton.edu
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EdNA
EdNA Online provides access to 18,000 Australian quality-assured education and training resources for school, early childhood, vocational education, adult continuing education, and higher education.
Category: Course Materials
Source: daveh@princeton.edu
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Gateway to Educational Materials
A searchable website providing "easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial internet sites." Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Category: Course Materials
Source: NEU ETC
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Harvey Project
An international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build interactive, dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web. Materials produced by the Harvey Project will be made freely available to any educational institution.
Category: Course Materials
Source: hood@princeton.edu
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Learning Objects and Learning Standards: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask.
In this paper, Hodgins first describes the need for standards as they are related to maximizing learning technologies, then he raises several key questions driving standardization projects
Category: Course Materials
Source: daveh@princeton.edu
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Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards
This white paper, facilitated by the S3 Working Group of the e-Learning Consortium, was created “to help the average person understand the rationale, development, and implication of learning standards and to accelerate their adoption.” The first part of the paper serves as a primer for those who have little to no knowledge of learning standards.
Category: Course Materials
Source: daveh@princeton.edu
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Maricopa’s Learning eXchange (MLX)
The Maricopa Learning eXchange is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.
Category: Course Materials
Source: daveh@princeton.edu
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Math Forum
The Math Forum's mission is to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning in an increasingly technological world.
Category: Course Materials
Source: hood@princeton.edu
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Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
The Mathematical Sciences Digital Library is an online resource managed by the Mathematical Association of America with funding by the National Science Foundation. The Library is hosted by the Math Forum. The site provides online resources for both teachers and students of collegiate mathematics.
Category: Course Materials
Source: hood@princeton.edu
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MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
A collection of online learning materials, peer reviews and assignments designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education.
Category: Course Materials
Source: NEU ETC
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MIT OpenCourseWare
A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century.
Category: Course Materials
Source: serge@princeton.edu
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NLII List of Learning Object Repositories
The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) provides an extensive list of sources for learning objects
Category: Course Materials
Source: daveh@princeton.edu
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NLII Reading List
Learning objects are an emerging NLII theme because their use has the potential “to provide learning customized for each specific learner at a specific time, taking into account, their learning styles, experience, knowledge and learning goals” (Schatz, 2000). The project reading list spans a broad range of topics related to learning objects.
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Source: daveh@princeton.edu
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The Instructional Use of Learning Objects
An online version of David Wiley’s edited book that explains what learning objects are and how they can be used for teaching and learning.
Category: Course Materials
Source: daveh@princeton.edu
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World Lecture Hall
Contains Web pages used in courses around the world. You can submit your own course address for inclusion, if you like. Maintained at the University of Texas.
Category: Course Materials
Source: Cornell ATC
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