• An educational Web site: Martha Ballard Case Study
• A simulation: Interactive Gravity Modeler
• A drag-and-drop learning activity: The Coronary Circulation: Parts of the Heart 
   
• Learning Object Photographed!  Abductions reported. J
  (Are you still confused about learning objects?   You are not alone!  Serious explanations below.)

More information on Learning Objects 

• Designing and Developing Interactive Learning Objects for Online Courses (Syllabus)
• National Learning Infrastructure Initiative: Learning Objects (NLII; Educause)
• NLII Learning Object Glossary (NLII)
• A Learning Object on Learning Objects (NLII - Learning Objects Working Group)
• All About Learning Objects
• Learning Objects and Standards Resources

  Learning Object Repositories (Places to Get Online Learning Content)

• MITOpenCourseWare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • MIT (press release about free course materials)
  • MIT for free, virtually
• MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) *
• Wisconsin Online Resource Center (Wisc-OnLine)
• COLIS (Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services, Australia)
• Open Content Alliance (OCA)(collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content)
• WebCT Digital Content for Instructors
• Harvey Project (dynamic human physiology course materials; freely available to any educational institution.) 
• The Math Forum@Drexel
• What a Site! (helps you learn to find, evaluate, and integrate useful content in your specialty area; includes links to Full Web Courses, Course Materials, Web Activities, and/or Web Resources)
• Evaluating Websites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Instructional Technology)
• Web Exhibits (list of high quality content sites on the Internet) *
• Blue Web'N  (a library of blue ribbon learning sites on the Web) *
• ThinkQuest Libraries *
• Teaching & Learning on the Web (a searchable collection of Web-based courses and class activities) *

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