Collections are groups of like resources related to a specific topic or audience within the NCLOR. General and special are the two main types of collections.

There are four general collections…

• All NCLOR Account Holders Collection: This collection includes resources that are available to all account holders in the NCLOR. Users contribute to this collection if they want all account holders to have access to search/view and use their resource.
• Higher Education Account Holders Only Collection: This collection includes resources that are available to higher education educators only. This would include community college and university educators with NCLOR accounts. Users contribute to this collection if they want any higher education educator to have access to search/view and use their resource.
• K-12 Account Holders Only Collection: This collection includes resources that are available to NC K-12 educators only. Users contribute to this collection if they want any NC K-12 educator to have access to search/view and use their resource.
• Community College System Account Holders Only Collection: This collection includes resources that are available to the NC Community College System institutions only. Users should contribute to this collection if they want only NC community college educators to have access to search/view and use their resource.

Resource Series

A resource series is a sub-set of resources within a collection. The following list of the resource series are available in All Account Holders Collection and are open to guest users. The resource series are managed by the NCLOR staff.

Academic Conference Presentations – This is a collection of the presentations given at participating educational conferences in North Carolina.

Annenberg Media Interactives – Free items for grades 6-12 learners in Math, Science, Art and History.

CK-12 Flexbooks – This resource series is a collection of free Flexbooks(eBooks)offered by the CK-12 Foundation.

Cool Tools for Teaching Online (SREB) – As part of the SREB State Virtual Schools Alliance in partnership with the AT&T Foundation, a list of New Media/Web 2.0 Tools has been prepared especially for SREB and online teachers by Chris O’Neal, Faculty Associate for the George Lucas Educational Foundation.

Elon Polls – Elon University Polling Results for North Carolina

Harvard Open Learning Initiative – The Harvard Extension School’s Open Learning Initiative brings a selection of noncredit online courses featuring Harvard faculty to the public for free.

History Animated (Military History) – Collection of depictions of the key naval and land battles in WWII (Pacific Battles), US Civil War and the US Revolution using animation technology.

Khan Academy – Large k-12 and Higher Education video tutorial lecture series.

Learn NC – Educational resources for North Carolina K-12 educators.

Math Open Reference – Math Open Reference uses interactive tools and compelling animations to provide an engaging way to learn and explore geometry.

MIT Open Courseware – This series is a collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare course materials that reflect undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.

NASA at 50 Video Collection – NASA at 50 highlights key innovations and milestones in chemistry, physics, engineering, and space exploration from NASA’s fifty-year history.

National Science Foundation – This series is a collection of Special Reports from the National Science Foundation.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed a set of 15 interactive multimedia presentations and learning activities that address topics ranging from Chemosynthesis and Hydrothermal Vent Life and Deep-sea Benthos to Food, Water and Medicine from the Sea.

NC BioNetwork – Collection of the official items used by BioNetwork.

NC School of Science and Mathematics – This is a series of resources including graphics, interactive animations, videos, lesson plans, and professional development made available by the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

Nobel Prize Education – Learning resource included in this resources series are Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace Prize related material.

Open Learning Initiative- The topics of the courses include: Biology, Economics, Math, French, Chemistry, Engineering, and Physics. The courses are exemplars of scientifically based online courses and course materials that enact instruction.

Open Yale Courses – Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.

PhET Simulations – PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free.

Princeton University Lectures – These resources are video captures of their famous public lecture series and include lectures given by Tom Brokaw, Noam Chomsky, Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and Dr. Cornel West just to name a few. The subjects included in this series are broad and include: Political Science, Finance, Biology, Literature, Religion, and Physics.

ReadWriteThink – This K-12 series includes 54 student interactive resources that focus on all aspects of literacy including literature, vocabulary, spelling, writing, and speech.

Smithsonian Education – The Smithsonian Education resource series is a collection of the “Smithsonian in Your Classroom” and the Smithsonian “Art to Zoo” publications as well as the Smithsonian Lessons grade level packages.

Virtual Cell Animations – The goal of the Virtual Cell (VCell) animation project is to create high-quality animations of selected molecular and cellular processes that support student learning.

Wisc-Online – Wisc-Online is a digital library of Web-based learning resources.