Institutional Repositories

The widespread emergence of the Internet has led to number of popular online repositories. An online content repository typically functions as a web-based service that allows users to upload and share different types of content. The content can be,for example, digital images,photographs, video files, documents such as blog etc.. and the like. Several companies have emerges that specialize in providing the storage and access services for online content repositories. Such companies include, for example, Flicker(Photographs), Youtube(Video),and the like.
Such as there is repositories also for Institution Some of the popular are given below:

  • Blue web'n Homepage : Blue web'n is an online library of more than 2000 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level,and format. Sites are categorized by subject based on the California State Frame works. Dewey Decimal Numbers, grade level(K-2 to college plus adult education) and, finally, by format. The content categories available are: arts, business, education, English, foreign languages, health, history and social studies, maths, science technology among others. All material on the Knowledge Ventures, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc. Web sites users are authorized to view, download,print,create an HTML pointer to and/or distribute website documents subject to conditions laid down by the owner.website:http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/bluewebn/search.cfm
  • Iconex Learning Objects Repository: This project aimed to investigate the key issues surrounding the identification, description,location, use and integration of interactive content through technical development. It is a JISC funded project and it is developed by North Lincolnshire College and University of Hull. Provides access to approximately 80 online course materials.website:http://www.iconex.hull.ac.uk/
  •  ide@s :An initiative by the University of Wisconsin to identity, evaluate,catalog,and align to the Wisconsin education standards resources that are already on the Internet. Such as lesson plans and reference materials. These resources are then made available from the ide@s search engine. Pre-kindergarten to higher education and adult education. Besides, there are more than 100 video documents under Videoide@s which  provides access to Wisconsin public Television and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board programs as streaming video.website:http://www.ideas.wisconsin.edu/
  • JORUM: Funded by JISC, JORUM is a collaborative venture in UK Higher and Further Education to collect and share learning and teaching materials,allowing their reuse and repurposing, and standing as a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials. Users can access the learning and teaching materials to enhance their students learning experience, Materials range from single assets to more comprehensive learning objects. JORUM accepts learning and teaching resources across all subject areas amount of content in each subject area in dependent on the community and individual users.At the moment JORUM has more than 2,000 resources.website:http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
  • MIT openCourseWare: MIT OCW is a large-scale, web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly bby the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), and generous support of the Ab Initio software company. Its goals are to: (i) Provide free, searchable access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world, and (ii) Extends the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the "opencourseware" concept. MIT ash more than 1,400 courses. OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License. It offers course materials of all subjects done at the university. It also provides access to video recorded classes.website:http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/search
  • Maricopa 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. The packages might include a particular lesson, technique method, activity,assignment that you either developed of applied in teching. The packing slip might contain a description of the strategy with perhaps some outcomes described. Additional material might be a Word/PDF document version of a handout, an image of engaged students, or al link to a web site created that describes the activity. At the moment there are more than 1500 packages.website:http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/
  • Monterey Institute for Technology and Education National Repository of online Course (NROC): A growing library of high-quality online courses for students and faculty in higher education. high school and advanced Placement. Courses in the NROC library are contributed by developers from leading online learning programs across the US. All courses are assessed to ensure they meet high standards of scholarship, instructional value and presentational impact. NROC works with developers and contributes resources to improve course quality and to provide ongoing maintenance. Courses are designed to cover the breadth and depth of topics based on generally accepted US curricula and can also be customized within a course management system. NROC partners with academic insttitution,publishers, teaching organizations, US state and federal agencies, international distributors and others to create a global distribution network to provide courses to students, teachers and the general public at little or no cost. It is supported by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.website:http://www.montereyinstitute.org
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