Demonstration & DiscussionDr. Ralph Kaplan, Director, NCLORJonathon Sweetin, Applications Integrator, NCLOR

NC3ADL Conference Nov. 15, 2010

Overview

What is the North Carolina Learning Object repository (NCLOR)?

Accessing the NCLOR Searching vs. Contributing

Technical Issues in the past Recent additions to the NCLORQuestions & Contact Info

What is the NCLOR?

Online centralized searchable database that stores teaching resources Provides a centralized location for the acquisition,

contribution, and management of quality learning resources

Integration of Blackboard and Moodle learning management systems

What’s in the NCLOR?

Over 10,000 teaching resources The Center of Excellence in Geriatric Nursing Education

(Duke University) The National Repository of Online Courses SAS –Curriculum Pathways™ Smithsonian Education ™ Explorer™ Virtual Microscope Harvard, Yale and MIT video courses NCCCS Virtual Learning Community (VLC) Correctional Educational Association Wisc-Online

Accessing the NCLOR

Searching: A NCLOR searcher can start searching for content for online courses housed in the NCLOR via their LMS today.

Blackboard

Moodle

Accessing the NCLOR

Contributor (main interface only) Get an account at

www.explorethelor.org Review the tutorials Start contributing

Technical Issues in the Past

In the past, users may have seen this error message…

This was a bug and should not happen again.

Recent Additions to the NCLOR

Annenburg Media offers free "Interactives" for grades 6-12 and provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas.

Annenberg Media Interactives

Total items available: 22

Example Resource:DNA

The CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. The subjects included in the new flexbooks series are Algebra, Biology, Physics, Calculus, Chemistry, Engineering, and Statistics.

CK-12 Flexbooks

Total items available: 180

Example Resource:CK-12 Biology

This series is a collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare course materials that reflect undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT. The resources can be complete courses, with video lectures, assessments and exams, or supplemental resources such as lab manuals.

MIT Open Courseware

Total items available: 6 courses, 25+ classes/course

Resource Example: Intro to Computer Science and Programming Lecture 2

NASA at 50 highlights key innovations and milestones in chemistry, physics, engineering, and space exploration from NASA's fifty-year history. Each clip serves as a gateway for further learning in science and history and promotes critical thinking and inquiry as essential components of scientific literacy.

NASA at 50 Video Collection

Total items available: 18

Resource Example: 1958: Project Mercury Begins

This series is a collection of poll results from Elon University. Using a computer-assisted telephone interviewing lab on campus, Elon University conducts frequent regional and statewide public opinion surveys on issues of importance to North Carolinians and other southern states. By conducting several surveys each year, the Elon University Poll is easily recognized as the “poll of record in North Carolina.”

Elon University Polls

Total items available: 17

Example Resource:Elon Poll: State residents support drilling off N.C. coast

The items included in this collection are the official items used by the network. BioNetwork trains at all levels of this industry, upgrading the skills of incumbent workers, from entry level to management. Our seven centers, strategically and geographically positioned, develop short and curriculum designed courses to meet the needs of industry.

NC BioNetwork

Total items available: 26

Resource Example: Lab Safety - Virtual Learning Object

The Virtual Learning Community is a collaborative effort of all of North Carolina’s Community Colleges to increase the quality and availability of online learning and support services. The purpose of the VLC is to develop, edit, and broker content for curriculum and continuing education distance learning courses and to provide professional development for distance learning faculty and staff.

Virtual Learning Community: Learning Objects

Total items available: 561

Resource Example:Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage of Cognitive Development

i3D allows for the visualization of information that is difficult to understand, describe textually, or demonstrate two-dimensionally. i3D also allows learners access to equipment or situations that would be prohibitively expensive or too dangerous in the real world. Disciplines utilizing i3D Learning Activities range from biology, math, and English to cosmetology, funeral services, surgical technology, and radiography

i3D Learning Activities

Total items available: 17

Resource Example:Hand and Wrist ID & Labeling

Explorer™ Virtual Microscope is a fully simulated experience of using a real microscope. Focus, slide placement, magnification choice & moving the stage controlled by mouse are all features available in Virtual Microscope.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The items in this resource series are only viewable with Microsoft Internet Explorer or Safari.

Explorer™ Virtual Microscope

Total items available: 117

Resource Example:Cat Cerebellum Golgi Stain

This series is a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) related resource series from Wisc-Online. Over 1000 learning objects that include subjects ranging from Anatomy and Physiology to Technical Physics are available in this series. There is also a large collection of Health related learning objects as well.

Wisc-Online

Total items available: 1017

Resource Example: A Typical Animal Cell

The goal of Math Open Reference is to provide high-quality content free of charge to the end user, and provide numerous benefits over paper textbooks. Some of the geometry topics included in this series are angles, parallel lines, triangles and quadrilaterals.

Open Math Reference

Total items available: 252

Resource Example:Finding the center of a circle

The Harvard Extension School’s Open Learning Initiative resource series includes 8 noncredit courses featuring Harvard faculty. The series is comprised of courses in disciplines such as: the classics, English, computer science, mathematics and history. All courses include lectures videos but some may include links to lecture notes and/or problem sets.

Harvard Open Learning Initiative

Total items available: 194

Resource Example:World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II

Subject Based Examples: The US Civil War

Interactive Maps Demonstration Video Lecture Video

Interactive Learning Object Interactive Learning Object(topic specific)

Biographical Info

Collection of depictions of the key naval and land battles in WWII (Pacific Battles), US Civil War and the US Revolution using animation technology.

History Animated

Total items available: 50

Example Resource: Battles of Petersburg and Appomattox

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LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, provides lesson plans, professional development, and innovative web resources to support teachers, build community, and improve K-12 education in North Carolina.

LEARN NC

Total items available: 56

Resource Example: Civil War reenactment:Firing a musket

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The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement. Subjects include: Algebra, Physics, American Government, Psychology, Biology, Religion, Calculus, Statistics, Environmental Science and US History.

National Repository of Online Courses

Total items available: 4916

Resource Example: The Civil War

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This is a collection of Yale University open course content. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn. Subjects include: Astronomy, English, Biomedical Engineering, History, Chemistry, History of Art, Classics, Physics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Political Science, Economics and Psychology.

Open Yale Courses

Total items available: 403

Resource Example:Lecture 27 - Legacies of the Civil War (Video Lecture)

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An online resource for students and teachers, SAS Curriculum Pathways provides standards-based content in all the core disciplines, grades 8-14.

ATTENTION: THE FIRST TIME A STUDENT VIEWS THIS ITEM FOR EVERY BROWSER SESSION, THEY WILL NEED TO CLICK ON THE LOGIN BUTTON BELOW THE STUDENT USERNAME 'phrase5interest'.

SAS Curriculum Pathways

Total items available: 211

Resource Example:John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

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Smithsonian Education is the gateway to the institution's educational resources and programs, publishing Smithsonian in Your Classroom, a journal for elementary, middle school and high school educators, offering research opportunities and resources to the museum community, and conducting professional development programs for educators at all levels.

Smithsonian Education

Total items available: 117

Resource Example:Mr. President : Profiles of our Nation's Leaders

Questions

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