2.3.1 CAREO (Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Materials) 

Lead 

University of Calgary, Alberta Learning, eduSource 

Origin Canada 

Background 

Established in 2001, the University has an educational development team that are developing their e 

learning systems called Learning Commons. The repository system was developed in conjunction with 

Alberta Learning and CANARIE.  

The project benefits from a separately funded project ALOHA which has is designed to accommodate any 

type of markup, and to allow searching and sharing of those objects.The repository purports to have over 

4,000 objects in it. 

URL http://careo.ucalgary.ca/cgi bin/WebObjects/CAREO.woa/wa/Home?theme=default 

Aims and 

To create a searchable, web based collection of multidisciplinary teaching materials for educators 

Objectives 

provincially and nationally to realize distance education needs 

Allow for joint contributions, sharing and communication between members of community with similar 

interests 

Development through four basic principles: 

1. 

Reuse of modularized educational resources or learning objects 

2. 

Organization of resources through metadata 

3. 

Provision of access to resources through a distributed repository architecture 

4. 

Continued development and enhancement of these resources through quality control, 

peer review, reward and support practices 

Professional recognition for teaching staff engaged in the development or delivery of educational 

resources 

Maximization of investments in staff and course development 

Achievement of effective quality control for learning content used in teaching 

Metadata 

IMS, CanCore and IEEE LOM 

Standards 

Content 

None 

Packaging 

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