THE BENEFIT TO FACULTY AND NCLOR 5.0

Jonathon Sweetin, NCLOR System Administrator

NC3ADL Conference Nov 7,2011

Overview

What is the North Carolina Learning Object repository (NCLOR)?

Ways to Access the NCLOR LMS vs. Main Interface

What goes in the NCLOR?Accessing the NCLOR

Searching vs. Contributing What benefits does it bring to faculty?Planned features in NCLOR 5.1

What is the NCLOR?

North Carolina’s C K-20* online centralized searchable database that stores teaching resources. NCLOR Main Interface: Provides a centralized

location for the acquisition, contribution, and management of quality learning resources

Single sign on integration of Blackboard and Moodle learning management systems

Ways to Access the NCLOR

NCLOR Server

Main Interface Log in SoftChalk

(Guest Content Only)

Searching & Adding to LMSSearching, Contributing , Use in F2F

LO Development

LMS Access

NCCCS faculty members currently can start searching for content to add to online courses.

Blackboard Moodle

Main Interface Access

Contributor (main interface only) Get an account at

explorethelor.org Review the tutorials Start contributing

New Features: Subject Cloud Follow Link 5.0 Tutorials*

NCLOR 5.0 Interface Changes

NCLOR 4.1 NCLOR 5.0

DelayedTBA

What goes into the NCLOR?

DocumentsZip Files

• Tutorials• Learning

Objects

Audio Files

Classroom Captures

Web Resources • Podcasts• YouTube Ed. Content• Google Books

Images

Videos*

What’s in the NCLOR?

Over 13,000 teaching resources Duke University Geriatric Nursing Collection Health Info. Technology Workforce Training Collection NC Alliance of Surgical Technology Educators Collection The National Repository of Online Courses SAS –Curriculum Pathways Explorer Virtual Microscope Harvard, Yale and MIT video courses NCCCS Virtual Learning Community (VLC) Khan Academy See complete list at http://explorethelor.org/collections/

Current Resources by Discipline

Discipline ResourcesAgricultural and Natural Sciences 1693Arts and Humanities 2094Business 349Career and Technical Education 481Computer Science 184Design 34Education 509Engineering 577Health Medical Sciences 901Information Sciences 26Language Arts 192Mathematics 3083Other 122Physical Sciences 2759Social and Behavioral Sciences 1015

Benefits to faculty

Smart Content StorageAccess to pre-constructed course contentPeer collaboration on resourcesAccess to enhanced, interactive, and engaging

resourcesUse of a sophisticated search utilityAccess to VLC and other system licensed contentIntegration with a LMS such as Moodle or BlackboardPeer reviewing and ratingAbility to Bookmark and Tag useful resources

Faculty Benefit: Content Storage (Old Way)

Moodle Course Section 1

Moodle Course Section 2

Faculty Benefit: Content Storage (NCLOR)

Moodle Course Section 2

Moodle Course Section 1

Blackboard Section 3

Faculty Benefit: Course Content (Old Way)

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Faculty Benefit: Course Content (NCLOR)

Faculty Benefit: Peer Collaboration (Old Way)

Faculty Benefit: Peer Collaboration (NCLOR)

Access to enhanced, interactive, and engaging resources

Subject: The US Civil War

Interactive Maps Lecture VideoInteractive Learning Object

Collection of depictions of the key naval and land battles in WWII (Pacific Battles), US Civil War and the US Revolution using animation technology.

History Animated

Total items available: 50

Example Resource: Battles of Petersburg and Appomattox

Back

The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement. Subjects include: Algebra, Physics, American Government, Psychology, Biology, Religion, Calculus, Statistics, Environmental Science and US History.

National Repository of Online Courses

Total items available: 4916

Resource Example: The Civil War

Back

This is a collection of Yale University open course content. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn. Subjects include: Astronomy, English, Biomedical Engineering, History, Chemistry, History of Art, Classics, Physics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Political Science, Economics and Psychology.

Open Yale Courses

Total items available: 403

Resource Example:Lecture 27 - Legacies of the Civil War (Video Lecture)

Faculty Benefit: Access to VLC and Licensed Content

Since 2008, all learning objects and assets used in VLC courses have been available in the NCLOR.

Other NCCCS system-wide licensed content like: National Repository of Online Courses V-Scope Explorer

The Virtual Learning Community is a collaborative effort of all of North Carolina’s Community Colleges to increase the quality and availability of online learning and support services. The purpose of the VLC is to develop, edit, and broker content for curriculum and continuing education distance learning courses and to provide professional development for distance learning faculty and staff.

Virtual Learning Community: Learning Objects

Total items available: 684

Resource Example:Physical Growth in Middle Childhood

This is fully simulated experience of using a real microscope. Focus, slide placement, magnification choice & moving the stage controlled by mouse are all features available in Virtual Microscope. Topics include Anatomy and Physiology , Multicellular Plants & Animals , and Single Cell Organisms

V-Scope Explorer Microscope

Total items available: 99

Resource Example:Cat Cerebellum Golgi Stain

Faculty Benefit: Sophisticated Search Utility

The Free Text search will search all fields associated with a resource. (NCLOR content only)

The Browse search sorts the resources into like characteristics such as: all Higher Ed content or all eBooks…etc.

Advance Search… will search for a resource with a combined queries.

Sophisticated Search Utility : Filters (5.0)

New in NCLOR 5.0 is the Filter. You can use the quick filter to sort search results by what type of attachment is associated with the resource.

Faculty Benefit: Peer Review and Comments

Users of any resource can use a star rating system to evaluate the resource and leave comments for the owner or other users to view.

Faculty Benefit: Bookmark & Tag Resources (5.0)

The new Add to Favorites feature in 5.0 will let you bookmark and tag the resources you wish to review later.

This feature is available through the LMS and the main interface.

Planned 5.1 New Features

Publish to LMS* - Ability to push content to online courses directly from main interface.

QTI Question Viewer- Ability to view questions in test banks before downloading to LMS.

YouTube Enhancements - Ability to select channels to customize user access.

Flickr Integration - Ability to search and link to public photos at Filckr.com.

Microsoft Office Integration – Ability to publish content directly to the NCLOR from Office.

NCLOR and LMS DemoMoodle 2.0

Faculty Benefit: Integration with college LMS

Questions

April 10, 2023

Jonathon Sweetin Email: sweetinj@nccommunitycolleges.edu

Web site – http://explorethelor.org Visit the NCLOR:

Thank you for your interest in the NCLOR.