Blackboard has started beta testing a new LMS-agnostic, cloud-based learning object repository, xpLor. Seventy-two K-12 schools, colleges, and universities have joined the beta program as of Nov. 5.

The latest release, version 6, adds a new learning object repository called Connect, which lets users browse online learning activities and embed them in external sites.

The educational landscape is littered with learning object repositories (LORs), bouncing dustily across education like purposeless tumbleweeds blown by the winds of indifference. If no one cares about ...

Instructure has launched a limited pilot of Canvas Commons, a new learning object repository that integrates with the Canvas learning management system.

"We have purchased statewide a learning object repository that we call the SC Instruction Hub … that’s loaded with… resources that address our standards.” ...

While Ms. Henderson acknowledges that each repository’s culture can be different, establishing a common language for metadata—or bits of information digitally tagged to a learning object to ...