What is a cource object repository and why should I care?

Instructional Management Systems Project (IMS)

• IMS Project Home Page
• Digital Object Repository White Paper

The IMS Content Packaging specification, together with the IMS Metadata specification, has become established as the most effective way to describe the structure of a learning object. Using these two specifications together provide an effective means to build reusable content, as indicated by its inclusion within the ADL's Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) v1.2. What's the importance in developing learning object repositories that may be linked to course management systems?

Advanced Distributed Learning

• ADL Home Page
• An online overview of this project

  SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model)

  A specification for an object repository

OKI (Open Knowledge Initiative)

Mellon funded project to promote inter-operability between knowledge _repositories.