Course management systems have gone mainstream. If your college d'esn’t have one, it will. Richard Katz, director of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), describes this as an evolution ...

The educational landscape is littered with learning object repositories (LORs), bouncing dustily across education like purposeless tumbleweeds blown by the winds of indifference. If no one cares about ...

Blackboard has started beta testing a new LMS-agnostic, cloud-based learning object repository, xpLor. Seventy-two K-12 schools, colleges, and universities have joined the beta program as of Nov. 5, ...

SoftChalk 6 Adds 'Connect' Learning Object Repository By David Nagel 05/26/10 Ed tech developer SoftChalk has released an update to SoftChalk, an authoring suite for instructional content. The company ...

“Just as learners need to collaborate to be successful, so do content authors and course builders,” said Stacey Fontenot, Vice President of Product Marketing at Blackboard. “xpLor plans to let users ...

With the demand for classroom multimedia tools increasing, so is the need for an easy way to find higher-quality digital content. In response to that demand, digital repositories where teachers, aides ...

Educators want more choices in the digital curricula they use in their classrooms, and they want that content accessible in bite-sized chunks more than ever before. That leaves digital-content ...

Learning object repositories and evaluation tools have the potential to serve as sites for interaction among different cultures and communities of practice. This paper outlines the web-based learning ...

Librarians in academic settings are often focused on outreach to disciplinary instructors. The dream many of us have is for information literacy instruction to be organically embedded into all ...