The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) contains links to many federated search sites that contain search engines covering online instructional resources. As such, it's an efficient starting point for searchers because they can utilize searches that extend across content repositories rather than searching individually by visiting every site. The GLOBE is also a good reference site for professionals in the field who want to keep up with news about standards, collaborations, and research. _____JH
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"The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) is an international consortium that strives to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world. The consortium provides a distributed network of learning objects that meet quality standards. GLOBE aims to connect the world and unlock the 'deep web' of quality online educational resources through brokering relationships with content providers."
"Organizations from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan and the US, have formed a global alliance to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world.
The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance has been established between the following founding members: the ARIADNE Foundation in Europe, Education Network Australia (EdNA Online) in Australia, LORNET in Canada, Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) in the US, and National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan. These organizations have committed to work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content.
The first steps of the alliance are to develop use cases, specifications, business rules and technologies which will enable searches across the repositories that the partners involved have developed over the last 5 years. In this way, more resources will become more easily available to the communities involved. Moreover, other organizations in the world will be able to join and contribute to the global network. The GLOBE website will provide updates on GLOBE’s progress. The alliance aims to create a critical mass of learning resources readily discoverable by leveraging the investment that governments around the world have made in publicly accessible content."
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