Learning Objects

Wisc-Online, MERLOT, the OER Commons and PhET are learning object repositories that might have useful content for your courses. You can create accounts for these collections but you don't need an account to browse through their objects.

Wisc-Online Examples:

1. Basic Pharmacology Terms Matching Game
2. Confusing Words - Lose, Loose, Loss
3. Jurisdiction Challenge Matching Game
4. Tricky Communication Situations

Note that these objects are free for non-profit educational organizations.

MERLOT Examples:

1. The Auscultation Assistant - heart and lung sounds
2. Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
3. The eSkeletons Project
4. Virtual Courseware: Earthquakes

Note that MERLOT is a good source for online textbooks, too. As of May 10, 2011, they have listed over 1600 online textbooks.

OER Commons Examples

1. Concepts of Information Technology
2. Digital Karnak
3. Basic Political Concepts (Global Text)

OER Commons also includes online textbooks. As of May 10, 2011, they list 278 textbooks.

PhET Examples (focus is on science, math, and computer science)

1. List of sumulations for university students.
2. Color Vision - includes a simulation and teaching ideas
3. Glaciers