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Learning Objects are small, reusable components of instructional media. They are a core concept in the approach towards learning (and teaching) as a series of instructional building blocks. Multiple blocks can be joined together to form a more comprehensive instructional unit, or individual blocks can be used to emphasize a particular aspect of learning. Learning objects can help you, as the instructor, with new ideas and methods to present instructional content. Students can also benefit from using our learning objects to review and reinforce existing concepts, as well as using them to learn something new.
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- African Art Museum Collections
Collection of African Art. Discover Africa’s rich cultural diversity as you explore the collection. - Air and Space Museum Archives
“The Archives Division’s collections span the history of flight from ancient times to the present day and include a wide range of visual and textual materials – over 12,000 cubic feet of documents, including over 900 individual collections, 2 million photographs, 9.5 million feet of motion picture film and 3,500 hours of video, and over 2 million technical drawings.” -Air and Space Museum - America on Stone: The Harry T. Peters Collection
“The Harry T. Peters 'America on Stone' lithograph collection provides a distinctive view of 19th-century American life as depicted in prints. Search the collection by keyword for specific terms or browse by selected subjects below.” -NMAH - American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery Collections
Smithsonian collection of American Art. Search by artist or title. - American Art Museum Photograph Archives
“The Smithsonian American Art Museum offers unparalleled resources for the study of American art. Its extensive Photograph Archives contain nearly a half million negatives, photographs, and slides. The images document American art from the colonial period to the present. “ -Smithsonian American Art Museum - American History Museum Collections
“The National Museum of American History collects artifacts of all kinds—from gowns to locomotives—to preserve for the American people an enduring record of their past. The Museum has more than 3 million artifacts in its collection. Information and photos of selected objects are available in the online collections database. The database is a work-in-progress and new items will be added regularly. A separate database covers archival collections.” –NMAH - American Indian Museum Archives Center
“The NMAI’s object collections (266,000 catalog records) scope encompasses two- and three-dimensional objects/works made, created, used, designed, or commissioned by Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere (excluding Hawai’i); preserved botanical, plant, animal, and mineral samples representative of agriculture, gathering, hunting, medical practices, and other Native knowledge systems; items that illustrate or document the history and work of the Museum of the American Indian (MAI), Heye Foundation, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the life and work of George and Thea Heye; and items that reflect or help interpret attitudes toward Native peoples.” -American Indian Museum. - Aragoª Online Collection Database, National Postal Museum
“Resource to the study of philately and postal operations as seen through the National Postal Museum.” -NPM - Archives of American Art Collections
“Over a hundred archival collections have been scanned and posted online in their entirety. Please note that majority of the Archives’ 6,000 collections are only partially digitized. TheImage Gallerydisplays items from partially digitized collections.” -Terra Foundation of American Art - Archives of American Art
“With over 16 million items in its continually growing collections, the Archives are the world’s largest and most widely used resource dedicated to collecting and preserving the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America.” -Archives of American Art - Archives of American Gardens
“The Archives of American Gardens (AAG) currently documents over 6,350 gardens throughout the United States from 1870s to the present. The bulk of the Archives consist of photographic images, it also includes a wide range of written documentation, drawings, plans and business files. Garden files include correspondence, articles, bibliographic citations and garden documentation forms completed by researchers. “ -Archives of American Gardens - Arxiv.org e-Print Archive
“Open access to 698,064 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.” -Cornell University Library. - Astrophysical Observatory Archives and Services
“Welcome to the CfA's resource page for researchers. These links to CfA sites provide access for the astronomical community to a variety of sources, including current research data and facilities as well as archival material.” -Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astropyhsics - AU Space
“AUSpace contains publications, articles, books, datasets, learning objects, images, blueprints, presentations, audio recordings, technical reports, videos, working papers and more. The role of this digital content repository is to preserve and disseminate Athabasca University's scholarly materials.” –AUSpace - Bio>Alive: The Life Science Video Share
Interactive Biology Tutorials and Quizzes: Animations, 3D animations, biology, and PCR Animation. - BioResearch
Web resources for all disciplines. - BrainPop
“Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids.” -BrainPop - Calisphere-A World of Primary Sources: University of California
Historical digitalized learning objects and resources from American History. Search by theme, historical event, or time period. - CAREO: Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects
“CAREO is a project supported by Alberta Learning and CANARIE that has as its primary goal the creation of a searchable, web-based collection of multidisciplinary teaching materials for educators across the province and beyond. - Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative
Open and free online courses in various disciplines. - Catalog of American Portraits
“Search more than 80,000 portrait records from theCatalog of American Portraits (CAP). New material is added regularly, and this information is automatically published to the website after it is cataloged and validated.” -Catalog of American Portraits. - CERN Document Server
Collection of articles, books, multimedia, and periodicals. - CiteSeerX
Scientific Literature Digital Library and Search Engine - Colorado State University Digital Repository
Research and scholarship of Colorado State University. Search by discipline or keyword. - Columbia University – Academic Commons
“Academic Commonsis Columbia University's digital repository where current faculty, students, and staff of Columbia and its affiliate institutions can deposit the results of their scholarly work and research. Content in Academic Commons is freely available to the public.” -Columbia University - Communities in Repository—The University of Texas
The Repository's purpose is to collect, record, provide access to, and archive the scholarly and research works of the University of Texas at Austin, as well as works that reflect the intellectual and service environment of the campus. - Computer Science Interactive Learning Objects
Audio effects learning objects. - Connexions[LT1]
Science and Technology repository of learning objects and is supported by Rice University, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Maxfield Foundation, and the Connexions Consortium. - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Collections- The Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Study Center Library and Archive
“Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s library is a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and contains more than 70,000 volumes, including books, periodicals, catalogs, and trade literature dating from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.” - The Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Study Center Library and Archive - Creative Commons
Search for digital images that can be modified and built upon for educational purposes. - Dallas Telelearning—Dallas Community College District, Freeware Project
“The LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications of Dallas County Community College District recently received funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) to explore the concept of open courseware.” -Dallas Telelearning - Digital Commons-Successful, Sustainable Institutional Repositories
Institutional repositories for colleges, universities, medical schools, law schools, professional schools, liberal arts schools, societies, associations, research institutes, and academic consortiums. - Digital Scriptorium[LT2]
“The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloguing.” -The Digital Scriptorium. - DigitalCommons@Pace
“The repository is a service of the Pace University libraries. Research and scholarly output included here have been selected and deposited by the individual university departments and centers on campus. Initially, library staff would have worked with departmental units to load these materials.” -Pace University - DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“The repository is a collaborative service of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln libraries. Faculty, researchers, and students associated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are invited to deposit digital materials for long-term preservation and world-wide electronic accessibility.” -University of Nebraska - Discovery Education: Educational Videos
Discovery Education supports teachers in accelerating student achievement, bringing the wonder of Discovery into classrooms to ignite students' natural curiosity - eCommons@Cornell
Digital repositories site at Cornell University. - Edutopia
Learning objects by grades level for the classroom. Videos, articles, and other resources. - EduTube
Educational videos for instructional use. - elearnspace-everything elearning
eLearning website with resources, listings, and information for learning objects. - Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
"Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth..."- Edward O. Wilson. - Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Learning object repository sorted by discipline from the Smithsonian collections. - Environmental Research Center Databases
“The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) leads the Nation in research on linkages
of land and water ecosystems in the coastal zone and provides society with knowledge to meet critical environmental challenges
in the 21st century.” - SERC - eScholarship - University of California
Open access to journals, theses, dissertations, seminar series, authors, and postprints for research and publication purposes. - ETE Relational Database and ETE DataNet
“The ETE relational database is now partially united with the Paleobiology Database Project's (PBDB) relational database. All primary database functions (queries, entries and updates) are available through the PBDB home page. The new combined database compiles information from the terrestrial and marine record, but lacks some of the data fields present in the original ETE database. ETE is currently updating and revising its database and web interfaces. Descriptions and a schema of the original ETE database are provided in the ETE Database Manual.” -NMNH - FLORE-French Learning Object Repository for Education
“FLORE is a free repository of French language educational resources. It is meant to help the user find appropriate sites and specific learning objects to learn or teach French. FLORE is designed for faculty and students in post-secondary institutions and it offers over 1000 online resources with annotations such as content descriptions and peer reviews. FLORE differs from online repositories because it contains links to very specific objects such as tables extracted from a larger web site for instance. By using the advanced search function, you can find sites or learning objects that answers your own learning needs.”-FLORE - Free Science Videos and Lectures[LT3]
Science videos and lectures for instructional use. - Freer and Sackler Archives
“The Archives houses more than 140 collections—amounting to over one thousand linear feet of materials—dating from the early nineteenth century to the present. Rich and diverse materials include the personal and professional papers of preeminent art historians, archaeologists, artists, dealers, and collectors, plus major collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photography of Asia and the Middle East. The collections also include still and moving pictures, graphics, audio tapes, and other forms of documentation.” -Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art. - Freer and Sackler Gallery Collections
“The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery contain some of the most important holdings of Asian art in the world. In addition, the Freer Gallery boasts exemplary examples of late-nineteenth-century works of American landscape and portraiture by James McNeill Whistler and his contemporaries. The Sackler Gallery is host to contemporary art from Asia as well as international loan exhibitions. Together, both galleries form the national museums of Asian art at the Smithsonian Institution, and are dedicated to the acquisition, care, study, and exhibition of works in their collections.” -Freer Gallery of Art - Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) Project
Search 21st Century learning objects by discipline. - Harvard University Archives - Repositories
Collection of Harvard’s repositories for medicine, law, archeology, business, ethnology, and art. Including the Radcliffe College archives. - Health Education Assets Repository - Heal National Digital Library
“Free, high-quality digital materials for health sciences education.” -Heal National Digital Library - Hirshhorn Collection Search[LT4]
Search the Smithsonian collections for sculpture art of various nationalities and school of movements. - IDE@S
“Selected PK-16 educators from Wisconsin work in teams to identify, evaluate, catalog, and align to the state 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. Now, you don't have to look through dozens of online listings to find the resource you need. The ide@s search engine allows you to tell it specifically what you need to find then it searches the database for you. You can read teacher reviews of the resources and see exactly which state standards they address.” -IDE@S - IEEE Xplore Digital Library
“Full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in engineering and technology .” -IEEE Xplore - iLumina[LT5]
“iLuminais a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses. Resources in iLumina are cataloged in theMARCandNSDLmetadata formats, which capture both technical and education-specific information about each resource. iLumina contains thousands of educational resources and several virtual collections.” -Educational Resources for Science and Mathematics - IMS Global Learning Consortium
“IMS GLC is anon-profit consortiumwhosecontributing membersare leading institutions, suppliers, and governments worldwide that collaborate on:
Interoperability:A supplier-neutralopen standards-based platformthat enables innovative digital content, learning applications, and tools to be seamlessly integrated with campus learning and administrative systems – from on campus or the cloud.
Adoption:Community support forinstitutional and system-wide adoptionof standards-based digital learning innovations, such as e-books, e-learning, e-assessment, e-classroom, e-homework.
Learning Impact: Anannual conference and awards programthat feature a focus on evaluation of theapplication of technology to the effective delivery of education.”—IMS Global Learning Consortium - Information Literacy within a Quality Assurance Framework: An Ideas Exchange for Librarians
Key learning objects repository listings. - Informing Science Institute Learning Objects Repository[LT6]
“Informing Science Institute (ISI) is an organization of colleagues helping colleagues. We draw together people who teach, research, and use information technologies to inform clients (regardless of academic discipline) to share their knowledge with others.” -Informing Science Institute - Interactive: Tools
“Tools designed for stand-alone applications in analyzing or organizing numbers and data.” -Interactive - IRis[LT7]
IRis is a digital archive that collects, manages, preserves, and shares the intellectual output and historical record of Northeastern University. It is a service of the University Libraries. - Khan Academy
“Library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 125 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn whatever you want, whenever you want, at your own pace.” -Khan Academy. - Kyoto University Research Information Repository
“Kyoto University Research Information Repository (KURENAI) contains peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, departmental bulletin papers and any kind of scholarly works of Kyoto University.* over 80,000 Articles / over100 Journals/ over 1100,000 full text downloads (2010).” -Kyoto University - Learning Objects – University of Minnesota Digital Media Center
Learning object repository listings, resources, and information. - Learning Objects Studio
Animations learning objects for Science and Mathematics, Social Studies, and Arts and Humanities. - Library of Congress
Digital collections of photographs, articles, and objects through the Library of Congress’ archives. - Life Magazine:Photo archive
“Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.” -Google - Lion: Library Information Literacy Online Network[LT8]
Video tutorials for learning. - Maths: New Zealand Maths—Digital Learning Objects
Digital learning objects for algebra, geometry, measurement, number, and statistics. - MERLOT -- Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Learning and Teaching
“MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.” -MERLOT - MIT Open Courseware