Monday, July 24, 2006

LOLA Exchange--Learning Objects and Learning Activities LOLA is an abbreviation for "Learning Objects and Learning Activities." The site has a fine collection of materials for use in instruction. "LoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. It contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy." The site is maintained by Wesleyan University. Use the video introduction and Help to orient to the features available at LOLA. ____JH ______ "LOLA is not a replacement for MERLOT or other national learning object repositories. We are adhering to emerging standards for learning object metadata (Dublin Core, IMS, CanCore), and will as part of the project develop methodologies for ensuring that the metadata that we create using LOLA becomes available through national repositories, using either federated search capabilities or metadata harvesting methods" 8:57:51 AM    COMMENT []