The Learning Object Repository [LOR] allows us to create items centrally for colleagues to copy into their courses and organizations. LOR items can be updated, applying changes to content items across ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

“Just as learners need to collaborate to be successful, so do content authors and course builders,” said Stacey Fontenot, Vice President of Product Marketing at Blackboard. “xpLor plans to let users ...

Canvas Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources. Canvas Commons allows Canvas users to share learning resources with other users as well as ...

In September 2009, we agreed to extend the current functionality of Blackboard from the basic 'Learning System' to the full suite ('Blackboard Learn') which consists of a Content System, Community ...