Resources

OnCoRe Blueprint Webinars

This series of monthly webinars focuses on issues surrounding repositories and repository development. The sessions feature guest speakers with expertise in each topic. Please see the schedule of upcoming webinars and recordings of past sessions.

General

Elsevier Agrees to Let MIT Use Bits of Journal Articles Online: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has reached a deal with Elsevier, one of the largest journal publishers, to allow a limited amount of material from its journals to be used in MIT’s OpenCourseWare project.
Taming the Digital Beast: This Campus-Technology Magazine article by Andy Patrizio discusses repository issues such as contribution, access, rights, storage, and functionality.
Use and Abuse of Reusable Learning Objects: This article from the Journal of Digital Information, by Pithamber R. Polsani, seeks to assess the definitions of the term Learning Object, to articulate the foundational principles for developing a concept of LOs, and to provide a methodology and broad set of guidelines for creating LOs.

Copyright

Worlds in Collision: Copyright, Technology, and Education: This article by Stephen Marshall discusses some of the conflicts between new collaborative technologies and the legal and technical systems that govern online and real-world behavior.
What Can You Do? The Rest of the Copyright Story: This downloadable podcast was recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference and features a discussion the ARL Know Your Copy Rights copyright education initiative. This initiative accentuates the positive and emphasizes what you can do with copyrighted materials. This effort offers resources, including a unique brochure, specifically created for all campus constituencies with the assistance of nationally recognized copyright educators. Discussants: Peggy Hoon, North Carolina State University; Robert R. Hoon, University of North Carolina at Wilmington; and Thomas K. Miller, III, North Carolina State University.

Metadata

SCORE User´s Guide to Learning Object Metadata (PDF, 300 KB)
LOMv1.0 (PDF, 168 KB): The LOM version 1.0 is an international metadata standard endorsed by the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee.

Orange Grove Information

The Orange Grove Quality Review Process (Rich Text File, 50 KB)

Producing Digital Content

Publishing Transcripts of Multimedia (MS Word, 31 KB)
What Makes a Good Learning Object? (MS Word, 34 KB )
Software Review Form (MS Word, 84 KB): This form can be used to record individual reviews of commercial tools (such as content development tools) and their pros and cons.