• Learning Objects Sites
• Digitization Project Inventories
• Subject/Discipline Specific Collection

Learning Objects Sites

• ADC Tutorials - Free Images Resources
  • An ADC-maintained list of websites offering free or inexpensive photos and images with information on each for terms of use, image quality, credits, redistribution, etc.
  http://www.mtroyal.ca/ADC/workshops/startworkshops/_misc/free_images/free_images.htm
• FreeFoto.com
  • FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs for private non-commercial use on the Internet. FreeFoto.com is made up of 62951 images with 112 sections organized into 2218 categories.
  http://www.freefoto.com
• ResearchChannel
  • Consortium of more than 30 higher education institutions offering broadcast-quality streaming media over the Internet in both live and on-demand formats,
  • Over 2,000 hours of original university-level programs available with 300 new programs added in 2003.
  http://www.researchchannel.org/
• For similar Internet on-demand/live broadcasts of educational media visit: University of California Television, California Community Colleges Satellite Network, Florida Education Channel, California State Polytechnic University MediaVision, California State University - Monterey Bay, University of Washington UWTV, Annenberg/Public Broadcasting Channel.
• Creative Commons
  • Content portal for collections of creative works available for use - some with limited copyright restrictions; others in the public domain. Categories include text, audio, video, and educational content.
  http://creativecommons.org/
• MIT OpenCourseWare - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Free open publication of MIT course materials,
  • MIT's course materials for educators, students, and individual learners around the world.
  http://ocw.mit.edu/
• MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
  • Free higher education links,
  • 9,305 objects (as of 28/05/2003).
  http://www.merlot.org/
  • ADC Sandbox's Personal Collections at MERLOT
  
  
• CAREO - Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects
  • Free higher education links,
  • Higher Education,
  • Alberta Campuses,
  • 3,537 objects (just getting started) (as of 28/05/2003).
  http://www.careo.org/
• Wisc-OnLine - Wisconsin Online Resource Center
  • Free higher education links,
  • Lots of flash (even in non-science disciplines),
  • Alberta Campuses,
  • 897 (Higher Ed) objects (as of
  28/05/2003).
  http://www.wisc-online.com/index.htm
• Bio-DiTRL - University of Alberta - Department of Biological Sciences - Digital Teaching Resources Library for Biology
  • Made for the Biological Sciences at the UofA,
  • (Free) subscription will become manditory to download objects,
  • 1,471 objects (as of 28/05/2003),
  • Lots of flash animations,
  • Download is usually via zipped files that must be unpackaged.
  http://database.sunsite.ualberta.ca/pls/biod1/
• EOE - Educational Object Economy - Global community for Web based learning tools in Java
  • A "Global Community" of educators contribute,
  • 3,312 Java Applets (as of 28/05/2003),
  • Many broken links.
  http://www.eoe.org/eoe.htm
• MathDL - The Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
  • Online resources for both teachers and students of collegiate mathematics,
  • Interactive mathlets include: discrete math, algebra, pre-calculus and Logic & Foundations,
  • Mathlets are in Java format.
  http://www.mathdl.org/
• GEM - The Gateway to Educational Materials
  • Links to 414 US education sites for K-University (but mostly for K-12),
  • 5,395 Adult Education objects (as of 28/05/2003),
  • Many text based objects.
  http://www.thegateway.org/
• ibiblio - University of North Carolina - Public library and digital archive
  • "The public's library and digital archive",
  • General interest, not just higher education links.
  http://www.ibiblio.org/
• The EduResources Portal - Eastern Oregon University
  • A gateway to higher education instructional resources,
  • Links to various learning object sites.
  http://www.eou.edu/~jhart/sitemap.htm

Digitization Project Inventories

• Digital Library Federation - University of Michigan Library
  • Links mainly to US university sites of both images and text content.
  http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll
• SunSITE Digital Collections - Berkeley Digital Library - University of California Berkeley
  • Links to UC Berkeley's various image and text collections.
  http://sunsite.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/
• ARL - Association of Research Libraries - Digital Initiatives Database
  • Links to various library's journal and article collections.
  http://db.arl.org/did/review.html
• Canada's Digital Collections - Government of Canada
  • Links to various Canadian cultural images and content.
  http://collections.ic.gc.ca/
• Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives - National Library of Canada - Government of Canada
  • General digital collections,
  • Resources centred around a particular theme,
  • Reference sources and databases.
  http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/initiatives/erella.htm

Subject/Discipline Specific Collection

• Internet Subject Guides - Mount Royal University Library
  • Reference collections
  • Articles
  • Great Sites for a wide variety of disciplines
  http://library.mtroyal.ca/subguides/
• Bio-DiTRL - University of Alberta - Department of Biological Sciences - Digital Teaching Resources Library for Biology
  • Made for the Biological Sciences at the UofA,
  • (Free) subscription will become manditory to download objects.
  1,471 objects (as of 28/05/2003)
  • Lots of flash animations
  • Download is ussually via zipped files that must be unpackaged.
  http://database.sunsite.ualberta.ca/pls/biod1/
• The Biology Project - The University of Arizona
  • Interactive site for learning biology
  • Quicktime movies, animated gif's, quizzes, and images, as well as textual content
  http://www.biology.arizona.edu/
• MedicalRounds - Multimedia OnDemand Medical Education - Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Freely available Webcast presentations and conferences from a number of contributing medical groups,
  • Over 600 QuickTime multimedia presentations available (2003).
  http://www.medicalrounds.com/
• The Math Forum @ Drexel - Drexel University
  • Content, problems and solutions in Mathematics for K- University level
  • Links to other similar sites from other institutions
  http://mathforum.org/
• MathDL - The Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
  • Online resources for both teachers and students of collegiate mathematics
  • Interactive mathlets include: discrete math, algebra, pre-calculus and Logic & Foundations
  http://www.mathdl.org/
• OR-Live: Live and On-Demand Medical Healthcasts
  • Live and archived webcasts and streaming video of operations conducted at major American hospitals and university medical centres.
  • Subject areas incluse: cardiovascular/cardiothoracic, careers, gastroenterology, neurological/neurosurgical, OBGYN, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, pediatrics, radiology, urology, and vascular surgery.
  http://www.or-live.com/
• StatCenter Sampler - Department of Psychology - University of Utah
  • Free Tools for teaching and learning science, methods, and statistics online
  • Statistical virtual reality simulating theories and data
  http://www.psych.utah.edu/learn/statsampler.html
• Teaching & Learning on the Web - Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction - Maricopa Community Colleges
  • Over 914 examples of how the web is being used as a medium for learning (as of 28/05/2003)
  • Includes K-Univsity level content
  • Does not include resource collections
  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/index.html