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High-quality Multimedia Content Available

The Florida Distance Learning Consortium (FDLC) is pleased to announce that over 500 multimedia resources in a range of disciplines are now available to all Florida educators through The Orange Grove, Florida’s K20 Digital Repository.

These resources, licensed from the National Repository of Online Courses, support distance and classroom instruction in Algebra, American Government, Biology, Calculus (English and Spanish versions), Environmental Science, Physics, Psychology, Statistics and U.S. History. To increase the discoverability of resources for Florida educators, faculty reviewers have added descriptive information to the resources, such as applicable Florida Statewide Course Numbers.

Status

As of July, 2008, The Orange Grove is used by over 180 K12 teachers and over 650 college and university instructors to store and access learning resources. The repository contains over 1,200 individually contributed items, and through resource sharing with other repositories, The Orange Grove provides access to an additional 40,000+ resources.

Integration

By integrating The Orange Grove with their learning management systems, institutions are now enabling their faculty to add repository content to their web pages and documents with a single click. The repository integrates with Blackboard/WebCT, Angel, Sakai, and Moodle. Contact us to learn more about integration, or to identify or recommend online resources to include in The Orange Grove.

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OnCoRe Blueprint

The OnCoRe Blueprint project is developing a national model for digital repositories. Funded by a three-year grant from Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) the project is producing a blueprint to guide other states or institutions in developing statewide repositories. For more information, please see the OnCoRe Blueprint website.

Shareable Content Object Repositories for Education (SCORE) Initiative

This is a multi–state collaboration of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) to enable the sharing of digital resources and repository expertise among member organizations in this 16–state cooperative. The SREB is developing procedures to allow educators to contribute, locate, and use selected resources among a range of repositories hosted by the SCORE member organizations.

The SCORE project of the Southern Regional Education Board used a team of professionals to decide which elements of the LOM v.1.0 were most valuable for educators to use to catalog, locate, and use digital resources across the sixteen member states of the Southern Regional Education Board. Those elements have been marked as required for data entry in The Orange Grove.