The Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction is a prolific source for valuable online instructional resources and guidelines to the use of online resources. Last week I did a site profile of Maricopa's "What a Site!" online workshop for instructors. The MLX site is of equal value; it contains "packages" of various subject area instructional resources.
"The key to MLX is it being a place for exchange of ideas. Anyone from anywhere can browse and search the warehouse. Each 'package' is represented by a descriptive 'packing slip' that includes the name of the package creator, college(s) that were involved in developing it, contact information, a description, links to web sites associated with the package, and a collection of media attachments that include images, documents, spreadsheets, movie clips, etc. The attachments provided are free for educational use as long as credit is given to the package owner."
A very clever and attractive feature of the site is that it immediately displays a boxed sample of three randomly chosen links to packages at the site. The visitor can readily get an impression of the variety of learning resource packages that are available.
The user can continue to explore the site by drawing up random samples of packages or can look at samples of the most recent or most popular packages. A guided tour is also available for the new user, as is a search tool to seek resources in specific disciplines or applications of particular tools.
MLX is a valuable site in itself but also as a model of how to encourage instructors to use and share online instructional resources.
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