Instructure has launched a limited pilot of Canvas Commons, a new learning object repository that integrates with the Canvas learning management system. Instructure is describing Canvas Commons as "a ...

Course management systems have gone mainstream. If your college d'esn’t have one, it will. Richard Katz, director of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), describes this as an evolution ...

Blackboard has started beta testing a new LMS-agnostic, cloud-based learning object repository, xpLor. Seventy-two K-12 schools, colleges, and universities have joined the beta program as of Nov. 5, ...

The educational landscape is littered with learning object repositories (LORs), bouncing dustily across education like purposeless tumbleweeds blown by the winds of indifference. If no one cares about ...

Abstract: Efficient search and retrieval of science education resources available in web-based repositories, depends on their educational metadata. Although the IEEE LOM Standard is the commonly ...

Abstract: Learning objects have arisen in response to the need of high-quality and reusable instructional materials. The repositories that hold learning objects allow educators to create and share ...