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== History ==
The NCLOR was conceived in 2006 by Dr. Bill Randall of the NCCCS. At that time, individual institutions had been purchasing or considering purchase of content repositories to serve their own needs without consideration of a centralized, sharable entity, which would drastically reduce the duplicative costs of content development. In addition, individual institutional contracts waste valuable public funding when all institutions in a system could be served via a [[consortium]] contract. The total effect of a shared, system-wide learning object repository would be a repository in which individual content collections could be shared, commercial content could be obtained more economically, content could be enhanced and maintained, and total IT support and hardware costs could be drastically reduced.
Thus, the NCLOR was designed to be a repository of digital learning content that will be accessed and utilized by all PreK-20 educational institutions in North Carolina. Representatives from all NC educational sectors (NCCCS, UNC, Independent Colleges & Universities) participated in creation and development of NCLOR from inception to production. It was conceptualized that the NCLOR would provide the following benefits:
* Centralize hosting to reduce costs of hardware and IT;
* Capability for instructors to share [[Learning Object]] (LO) items;
* Capability for newly developed LO items to be moderated, improved, deployed, and shared;
* Reduce duplication of effort and save development resources statewide;
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* Conform to standards governing content, protocol, and federation.
A [[Request for Proposal]] (RFP) was created and publicized. Several vendors responded with their database products and Equella from The Learning Edge was chosen.
The NCLOR began production in January 2008, fully integrated with course management and data systems, and fully operational for [[North Carolina]] faculty to create and use sharable content.
===Technology===
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* [[Fayetteville Technical Community College]] (FTCC) for the Technology Center
* [[Wake Technical Community College]] (WTCC) for the Professional Development Center
In addition, VLC Course Development Centers create and update courses that are part of the [[Community College]] common curriculum for inclusion into the NCLOR. These centers are:
* Wake Technical Community College - STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Center
* Surry Community College - Nursing, Early Childhood Education, Developmental Course Center
* [[Wayne Community College]] - Continuing Education Center
These centers will support the continual development, creation, storage, and sharing of digital learning resources and courses through use of the NCLOR.
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== External links ==
* [http://www.explorethelor.org/ North Carolina Learning Object Repository Official website]
* [http://nclor.wordpress.com/ North Carolina Learning Object Repository blog]
* [http://vlc.nccommunitycolleges.edu/ Virtual Learning Community]
* [http://www.equella.com/ The Learning Edge]
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