XPERT (Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory)
From the about page:
XPERT (Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory) project is a JISC funded rapid innovation project (summer 2009) to explore the potential of delivering and supporting a distributed repository of e-learning resources created and seamlessly published through the open source e-learning development tool called Xerte Online Toolkits. The aim of XPERT is to progress the vision of a distributed architecture of e-learning resources for sharing and re-use.
Learners and educators can use XPERT to search a growing database of open learning resources suitable for students at all levels of study in a wide range of different subjects.
Creators of learning resources can also contribute to XPERT via RSS feeds created seamlessly through local installations of Xerte Online Toolkits. Xpert has been fully integrated into Xerte Online Toolkits, an open source content authoring tool from The University of Nottingham.
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You may want to start with the browse option because the main interface is rather stark.
The Google interface is “stark” in the same sense but Google has indexed a substantial portion of all online content. I’m not very likely to draw a blank. Xpert, with a base of 364,979 resources, the odds of my drawing a blank are far higher.
The keywords are in three distinct alphabetical segments, starting with “a” or a digit, ending and then another digit or “a” follows and end, one after the other. Hebrew and what appears to be Chinese appears at the end of the keyword list, in no particular order. I don’t know if that is an artifact of the software or of its use.
The same repeated alphabetical segments occurs in Author. Under Type there are some true types such as “color print” but the majority of the listing is file sizes in bytes. Not sure why file size would be a “type.” Institution has similar issues.
If you are looking for a volunteer opportunity, helping XPert with alphabetization would enhance the browsing experience for the resources it has collected.
I first saw this in a tweet by Graham Steel.