CLARe (Contextualised Learning Activity Repository)

Thanks to EduResources for drawing attention to CLARe (Contextualised Learning Activity Repository), a repository for online learning and teaching materials. CLARe currently contains resources related to language learning and study skills; however, according to EduResources, plans are underway to expand the contents.

The repository contains complete interactive, multimedia activities (learning objects) and individual resources, such as texts, video or audio recordings (assets). These materials were created as part of the JISC L2O project and comprise materials initially supplied by developers at the universities of Portsmouth, Reading, Surrey and Southampton. CLARe asserts that they have designed their materials to be flexible—they can be used in a blended learning/teaching situation or independently by students.

CLARe is running on GNU EPrints, repository software that generates eprints repositories compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 1.1 and 2.0. The GNU EPrints repository-creating software is available for free at http://software.eprints.org/.