Merlot 2006 GLOBE - Will it make a difference

Gerry Hanley Cal State University &Merlot, Tsuneo Yamada National Institute of MM Education Japan, Erik Duval Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium & Ariadne Foundation, Gilbert Paquette Tele Universitie Canada & LORnet appears to be Merlot’s equivalent of a network of repositories made up of Ariadne, EdNA, LORNET, Merlot and NIME

The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) is an international consortium that strives to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world. The consortium provides a distributed network of learning objects that meet quality standards.

GLOBE aims to connect the world and unlock the ‘deep web’ of quality online educational resources through brokering relationships with content providers.

The URL is; http://globe.edna.edu.au/globe/go

Principles for GLOBE

• Needs to be open and low barriers
• Provide open specs – openly share amongst members
• Use standards and contribute back to GLOBE
• New collections are welcome to complete a automated certification process
• 5 initila bodies

Near Term and Goals

• V1 Federated search
• Simple communications
• Shared governance
• Move from and inkind contributions to externally funded and managed project

Gilbert Paquette

Install an eRIB which is a package that is provided to enable people/organisatons to create their LOR and join.

Gilbert spoke of the future for Globe which is clearly going to some degree where%%