Digital Repositories
Digital Resources
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Contents
Amser ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
Annenberg Media Interactives ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Bartleby.com ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 2
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources ...................................................................................................... 2
Community College Open Textbook Collaborative .............................................................................................................................. 3
comPADRE ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Elon Polls .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Flat World Knowledge .......................................................................................................................................................................... 3
FreeEtextbooksOnline.com .................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Free Video Lectures .............................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Google Books ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
ManyBooks.net .................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
MERLOT ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
National Science Digital Library ............................................................................................................................................................ 5
NCLOR .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
NJVID .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
OER Commons ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Open Culture ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Open Educational Resources Center for California .............................................................................................................................. 6
Open Library ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Orange Grove ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Project Gutenberg ................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
SAS Curriculum Pathways..................................................................................................................................................................... 7
TED TALKS............................................................................................................................................................................................. 8
The Khan Academy ............................................................................................................................................................................... 8
VAIL: Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Wikibooks ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Wisc-Online .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
YouTube EDU........................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Adding Resources to Moodle ............................................................................................................................................................. 10
Adding a Resource from SAS Curriculum Pathways ........................................................................................................................... 12
Additional Resources.......................................................................................................................................................................... 14
7 Things You Should Know About…Personal Learning Environments ........................................................................................... 14
90+ Videos for Technology & Media Literacy ................................................................................................................................ 14
The New (and Old) News about Cheating for Distance Educators ................................................................................................ 14
The 10 Bona Fide Best Sites for Sharpening Your Critical Thinking Skills ...................................................................................... 14
Amser
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http://amser.org/
About
AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) consists of applied mathematics and science educational resources.
This website was built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges. AMSER is funded by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library.
How to Request an Account
To create an account, click on the following link.
http://amser.org/AMSER--Register.php
After logging in, click Resources and the disciplines (they call them “Classifications”) will be displayed:
Arts
Philosophy
Educational Technology
Physical Education
Foreign Languages
Religion
Health
Science
Language Arts
Social Studies
Mathematics
Vocational Education
Annenberg Media Interactives
http://www.learner.org/interactives/
About
Annenberg Media is part of the Annenberg Foundation which provides educators and students with strategies, content, and
activities that can enhance and improve skills in a variety of areas. Resources include: video, online texts, guides and websites.
Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/
About
Bartleby.com publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference materials free of charge and unlimited
access to students, researchers, and the public.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/
About
The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) offers open educational resources
(OER) and open textbooks, open courseware in community college courses. The goal is to create awareness of OER
and to develop and use open educational resources.
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Community College Open Textbook Collaborative
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
About
College Open Textbooks is a repository of open textbooks that are peer reviewed by a professional network of educators.
Reviews are done by instructors in the field who have used these books in the classroom in community colleges and two-year
institutions.
comPADRE
http://www.compadre.org/
About
The ComPADRE Digital Library is a network of free online resource collections supporting faculty, students, and teachers with a
focus in Physics and Astronomy education. Collections contain materials designed for a specific community.
You get the best simulations when you type “java” into the search bar. Most of the good simulations are coded in Java, which
means you must have Java installed on your computer to view them.
Elon Polls
About
Elon University conducts frequent regional and statewide public opinion surveys on issues of importance to North Carolinians
and other southern states. By conducting several surveys each year, the Elon University Poll is easily recognized as the “poll of
record in North Carolina.” The polls can be related to a variety of topics but mostly center around politics and local government
issues.
How to Request an Account
You can find the Elon Poll items in the NCLOR by browsing the “Browse by Resource Series” area or by searching for “Elon Polls”
in the free text search box.
Flat World Knowledge
http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
About
Textbooks by expert authors offered online free. Textbooks are also offered offline at affordable prices. Books by leading
experts, peer-reviewed and developed to high editorial standards, fully supported by review copies and teaching supplements.
Features:
 Free online
 Affordable offline
 Open–licensed
 Customizable by educators
If you view their catalog and click one of the categories, the right column should give a future date for when it will be available or
it should say "Published."
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FreeEtextbooksOnline.com
http://freeetextbooksonline.com/
About
FreeEtextbooksOnline.com offers free digital textbooks for many subject categories and for all tablet and digital
textbook viewing devices. Browse etextbook selections by subject, or search for etextbooks by title and/or authors
and download immediately.
Free Video Lectures
http://freevideolectures.com/
About
Free Video Lectures (FVL) is an organization with the largest collection of classroom recorded video lectures from the
top 20 universities. Most of the videos are down-loadable in various formats and updated almost every day. FVL is
been accessed by more than 200 countries with over 1 million views monthly.
Google Books
http://books.google.com/
About
Search for books from around the world and preview or read them for free. Read from browser, tablet, phone, or ereader.
Bookmark: As you search, add books you find interesting to your library.
Organize: Create your own bookshelves to organize your collection. Rate books and write reviews.
Share: Know the top ten books to learn Russian? Share a bookshelf with the world or just let friends know what you are reading.
Main categories include:
 Classics (Treasure Island, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Scarlet Letter, etc.),
 Poetry,
 Mathematics,
 Literary Criticism,
 Social Science,
 Philosophy,
 Law, and
 Highly cited.
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ManyBooks.net
http://www.manybooks.net/
About
A collection of popular titles of more than 29,000 eBooks available for Kindle, Nook, iPad and most eReaders for free.
Search by author, title, genre, language, new titles, and books recommended by readers from around the world.
MERLOT
http://www.merlot.org
About
MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources. Members collaborate to build a collection of peer reviewed online
learning materials for online teaching. MERLOT is a place where faculty, staff, and students from around the world can share
their learning materials and pedagogy.
How to Request an Account
To create an account, click on the following link:
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/join.htm
After logging in, the disciplines are in the middle of the screen:
Biology
Information Technology
Business
Library and Information Services
Chemistry
Mathematics
Criminal Justice
Music
Engineering
Physics
English
Psychology
Faculty Development
Statistics
Fire Safety
Teacher Education
Health Sciences
Technical Allied Health
History
World Languages
National Science Digital Library
http://nsdl.org/resources_for/university_faculty
About
Digital library from a network of partners that provide a collection of free resources that can be searched by discipline, education
level, or a specific multimedia format.
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NCLOR
www.explorethelor.org
About
The North Carolina Learning Object Repository (NCLOR) collects documents, audio/video clips, simulations, learning modules,
assessments, and any type of multimedia resource. Search the LOR by discipline, learning type, level, or browse by resource
series. Find materials appropriate to the classes and modify them. The concept of sharing and reusing is the core of the LOR
philosophy. The NCLOR provides a list of resources that you can access in the “Browse by Resource Series” area.
How to Request an Account
1. Click on Request Account
2. After logging in, you can use the search or browse.
The disciplines are as follows:
Agricultural and Natural Sciences
Art and Humanities
Business, Management & Economics
Career and Technical Education
Computer Science
Design
Education
Engineering
Health and Medical Sciences
Information Sciences
Language Arts
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Social and Behavioral Sciences
NJVID
http://www.njvid.net/index.php
About
NJVid (New Jersey’s Digital Video Repository) is a digital video portal and central storage repository. It provides
educational and research videos to support online teaching and learning.
OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org/oer
About
OER content is learning content free to use and share with others. Publish lessons, activities, and courses for K-12 and college
courses.
Open Culture
http://www.openculture.com/
About
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural and educational media for free. Content is centralized in one place to access
audio books, online courses, movies, language lessons, ebooks and other enriching content. To access content click Online
Courses.
Open Educational Resources Center for California
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http://grou.ps/oercenter/
About
The OER Center for California is a central repository that provides support for community college educators. Use, remix, and
share openly licensed learning content. The site links to more than 400 open textbooks and peer reviews of open textbooks.
Open Library
http://openlibrary.org/
About
Open Library is an open project for anyone that wants to contribute new information or corrections to a book. Similar to
Wikipedia a web page is created for each book. The software, data, and documentation are open to its members. Open Library
has a collection of over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available.
Orange Grove
http://www.theorangegrove.org/
About
The Orange Grove (Florida’s Digital Repository) is an online library of free instructional resources for educators. Educators can
use and remix, share, and contribute educational resources.
How to Request an Account
To create an account, click on the following link.
http://www.theorangegrove.org/newaccount.asp
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
About
Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks to download to your PC or mobile device. Choose between ePub,
Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. All ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers.
SAS Curriculum Pathways
http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/
About
SAS Curriculum Pathways is designed to enhance student achievement and teacher effectiveness by providing web-based
curriculum resources in all the core disciplines: English, math, science, social studies/history and Spanish. SAS is offered at no
cost to US educators and students for grades 6-12 in virtual schools, home schools, high schools and community colleges.
How to Request an Account
To register, click on the following link.
http://www.sas.com/govedu/edu/curriculum/register.html
Once you set up your own login, password, and select your desired disciplines, those disciplines will appear near the top of the
screen. The disciplines and sub-disciplines are:
English
History
Science
Mathematics
Spanish
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Language
Ancient Civilizations
Earth Science
Communication
Skills
Literary Genres
Early Regional
Civilizations
Modern European History
Physical Science
Biology
Introductory
Algebra
Intermediate
Algebra
Advanced Algebra
American Literature
Contemporary World
History
United States History
Civics & Economics
Chemistry
Geometry
Physics
Trigonometry
Data Analysis
English Literature
World Literature
Culture &
Civilization
Dialogue &
Dialects
Grammar in
Practice
History & Politics
Literature
TED TALKS
http://www.ted.com/
About
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to bringing people and ideas together from different worlds, including: technology,
entertainment, sciences, humanities, arts, business, and design. TED offers free knowledge and inspirational videos from great
minds from around the world.
The Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/
About
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit with the mission of providing a library of over 3,400 videos on every subject
imaginable. The library includes user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan
Academy to become the free classroom for the World.
VAIL: Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/vail/index.html
About
The Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory (VAIL) is a portal for students, faculty and administrators to use as a resource to
combat plagiarism and promote academic integrity. VAIL includes guides, tutorials, bibliographic information, and survey
research on academic integrity issues in higher education.
Wikibooks
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
About
Wikibooks is a community for creating a free library of educational open-content textbooks. Wikibooks has grown to include
over 2,484 books created by volunteers and can be edited by anyone.
Wisc-Online
http://www.wisc-online.com/
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About
Wisc-Online is a digital library of learning resources. The digital library of learning objects has been developed primarily by
faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and multimedia technicians.
How to Request an Account
To create an account, click on the following link.
https://www.wisc-online.com/SignUp.aspx
After logging in, click learning objects at the top of the page. The major subjects are:
 ABE/ELL
 Business
 General Education
 Health
 Professional Development
 Service
 Technical
YouTube EDU
www.youtube.com/edu
About
YouTube EDU is a section of YouTube specifically for the educational community. Universities including Stanford, Harvard, UCLA,
and Cambridge, have their own YouTube EDU channels, with some hosting full lectures ranging from one to two hours.
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Adding Resources to Moodle
Notice: The directions below do not apply to anything from SAS or the NCLOR
1. In a chapter of a book in Moodle, type “Access the [name of repository] to complete the learning activity,”
the title of the learning activity, and the copyright information.
2. Copy the URL address from the resource by highlighting the URL address within the browser, then right click
the mouse and choose Copy.
3. Highlight the title of the resource and click Insert/edit Link, which is the chain link icon.
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4. Paste the address where it says Link URL by right clicking the mouse and selecting Paste. Change the Target
to Open in new window. Type the Title and Click Insert.
5. Click Save changes.
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Adding a Resource from SAS Curriculum Pathways
1. Once you’ve logged in and found a resource, click Share.
2. Select the radio button next to within a course/web below “I want to share this resource.” Then copy and
paste the code into your course/web page in Moodle.
3. Go to the desired chapter of a book in Moodle in editing mode. Select the HTML “edit HTML source” button
on the text editor.
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4. Paste the code into the HTML source editor and click Update.
4. Add the username for students to login and any additional information or directions. Students will only enter
a username for SAS Curriculum Pathways. No password is required.
Note to instructor: An email notification with the username for students will be sent to you once you have setup
an account.
4. Highlight the URL address and be sure that the hyperlink opens in a new window. Type the title of the
resource and change the Target to New window. Click Update.
5. Click Save changes.
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Additional Resources
7 Things You Should Know About…Personal Learning Environments
http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-personal-learning-environments
About
This resource provides information about the personal learning environment (PLE). PLE describes the tools, communities, and
services that the individual learner uses to direct their own learning and educational goals. Students typically use blogs to
comment on what they are learning and post information on websites and discuss those with their peers.
90+ Videos for Technology & Media Literacy
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1480
About
Open Thinking and Digital Pedagogy is a personal collection of videos organized into subcategories. Dr. Alec Couros, a professor
of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina has created this space as a place for
personal reflections and educational resources related to teaching and learning, democratic media, critical media literacy, digital
citizenship, openness, and social justice.
The New (and Old) News about Cheating for Distance Educators
http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall123/howell123.html
About
Educators in distance education are faced with the challenge to ensure the identity of test takers and of exam results. This
information will provide distance educators with an understanding and awareness of issues surrounding cheating and staying
current on the latest developments to mitigate cheating.
The 10 Bona Fide Best Sites for Sharpening Your Critical Thinking Skills
http://www.missiontolearn.com/2009/09/sharpen-critical-thinking-skills/
About
This site provides ten resources available on the web for educators to help students sharpen their critical thinking skills.
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