NROC




 * National Repository of Online Courses**

The Partnership for Innovation has purchased a three-year statewide membership to [|NROC], the National Repository of Online Courses. This means that all teachers in our districts have access to this content. The NROC courses could be utilized in their entirety, but may be more useful as separate learning objects.

The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online courses for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement©. This non-profit project, supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is an Open Educational Resource (OER) and facilitates collaboration among a community of content developers to serve students and teachers worldwide.
 * What is NROC?**



Courses in the NROC library are contributed by developers from leading academic institutions across the United States. All courses are assessed to ensure they meet high standards of scholarship, instructional value, and presentational impact. NROC works with scholars and contributes resources to improve course quality and to provide ongoing maintenance. NROC courses are designed to cover the breadth and depth of topics based on generally accepted national curricula and can also be customized within a course management system.


 * Accessing NROC Content**
 * 1) Linking to individual learning objects – Teachers will be able to do this when the NROC content is added to the new server. These links can be added to any course management system (Angel, Moodle, Blackboard.) This will be similar to the [|OPS NROC] site.
 * 2) Hippo Campus – Partnership for Innovation – Teachers create their own site where individual learning objects from NROC can be added.

** About HippoCampus ** http://www.hippocampus.org/myHippo/?user=myPFI Teacher can go to this link to create their own HippoCampus site.

HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. HippoCampus was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. HippoCampus content has been developed by some of the finest colleges and universities in the world and contributed to the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC), another MITE project. NROC makes editorial and engineering investment in the content to prepare it for distribution by HippoCampus. Both HippoCampus and NROC are supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.