2.3.5 CLOE (The Co operative Learning Object Exchange)

Lead 

EduSource Canada (Key Sponsor) 

Origin Canada 

Background 

This project is a collaboration between Ontario universities and colleges for the development, sharing, and 

reuse of multimedia rich learning resources. It is funded by CANARIE Learning Program. In addition CLOE 

holds close affiliations to MERLOT and GLOBE as well as other national and international organizations.  

URL http://cloe.on.ca/ 

Aims and 

The major innovation is the co operative exchange mechanism. The motivation for the co operative exchange 

Objectives 

is threefold: 

1. 

Increase e learning opportunities, by making high quality resources more widely available. 

2. 

Increase the return on investment for development of learning resources, by compensating 

institutions whose resources by used by others. This also promotes high quality in the resources, 

since learnware objects which are re used by others return more value. 

3. 

Accelerate the growth of effective communities of practice for e learning development. In keeping 

with the university cultures, these will be discipline based. We are already experimenting with 

support for such communities in early stage design reviews, to insure that resources can be more 

easily re used and to build `buy in' for re use. 

All materials are interactive and browser based, combining various media into the learning experience. Assets 

or non interactive materials may be  components of the learnware objects in the database.  

Metadata 

unable to find information at time of writing 

Standards 

Content 

unable to find information at time of writing 

Packaging 

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