2.3.2 Wisconsin Online Resource Center 

Lead Wisconsin 

College, 

Origin  

Canada 

Background 

The project has received two major grants (Fund for the Improvement of Post secondary Education 

(FIPSE) followed by a National Science Foundation Grant totaling $2.7 million starting in September, 1999.  

It's a College based system and includes 16 Wisconsin Technical Colleges. 

URL http://www.wisc online.com/index.htm 

Aims and 

The Wisconsin Online Resource Center project is a web based teaching, learning, and assessment 

Objectives 

resource center for instructors to use when designing or revising online courses.   

The goals of the project are to accelerate the development of quality online courses while, at the same 

time, minimizing the cost of course development by identifying and sharing best practices.  

Faculty from throughout the WTC System create  learning objects  (activities, text, animation, graphics ) 

for each competency within the General Education courses of Communication Skills, Social Studies, Math, 

Science, and Adult Basic Education.  The WORC collection is made up of over 1000 interactive browser 

based educational materials. 

The contents are interactive, browser based educational material.  

A customized repository hosted by Wisc Online is available at $25,000 for initialization and the first year 

license with an annual hosting and maintenance cost of $5,000. 

1914 Objects Online, 180 Objects Under Development (as of 12 Sept 2005) 

Learning objects are designed and developed by a team of instructional designers, editors, technicians, 

and student interns.

Metadata 

unable to find information at time of writing 

Standards 

Content 

unable to find information at time of writing 

Packaging 

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