Repository Funding: Sources Strategies and Challenges

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Repository Funding SourcesStrategies and
Challenges
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Potential Funding Sources

• Legislature
• Re-allocation
• Grant/s
• Entrepreneurial
• Corporate partnerships/sponsorship
• Institutional support
• Consortia
• Private donors/endowments

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Rice Connexionshttp//cnx.org/

• Began in 1999 by Rice University faculty
• Started with donor funding
• Supported by
• Rice University
• Foundation grants (HP-gt4m 2002-07)
• Corporate/research groups
• Individual donors

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MERLOTMultimedia Educational Resource for
Learning Online Teachinghttp//www.merlot.org

• 1997 started by the California State University
  Center for Distributed Learning (CSU-CDL)
• 1998 established a consortium
• 1999 4 state systems contributed
• 20,000 membership fee
• gt 30,000 each in-kind support for faculty
  release and travel (University of GA System, OK
  State Regents for Higher Education, University of
  NC System, and the CSU System)
• 2000 23 new institutional partners (25,000
  each)
• Today Academic and corporate partnerships/

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MERLOT
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MIT Open Coursewarehttp//ocw.mit.edu

• 2000 proposed by MIT faculty
• 2007 completed the online publication of the
  entire curriculum
• gt 1,800 courses in 33 academic disciplines
• Supported by foundations, corporations, in-kind
  contributors, and individual donors (Hewlett
  Foundation Grants 2003-2006 totaling almost 6
  million)

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Intute Government Fundedhttp//www.intute.ac.uk/

• Launched July 13, 2006
• previous incarnation was the Resource Discovery
  Network (RDN) established in 1993.
• Supported by
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
• Intute and its four subject groups
• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
• partially funds Intute Arts and Humanities.

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CAREOCampus Alberta Repository of Educational
Objects http//www.ucalgary.ca/commons/careo

• 2001-2007
• Funded through a Learning Enhancement Envelope
  (LEE) grant (government of Alberta)
• Maintained by volunteers
• Grant now defunct, repository stagnated due to
  lack of funding and volunteer burnout

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Wisc-Onlinehttp//www.wisc-online.com/

• Started with a FIPSE/LAAP Grant 1999-2001
• Received NSF funding 2001-2004 totaling 819,850
• State funding to build 100 LOs for 14 critical
  core soft skills
• Formed consortium of Wisconsin Technical Colleges
• Develop business in corporate training materials

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Wisc-OnlineDiversified Revenue Streams

• Corporate training development generated about
  200,000 last year
• Each of 16 colleges also contribute about 6300
  per year
• Support a technician to maintain repository
• Develop up to 10 learning resources
• Users can purchase
• downloads or CDs of learning objects
• source code has not been a good revenue
  generator
• Total annual budget of about 500,000

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Kentucky Learning Depot Allen Lind
http//www.kylearningdepot.orgThe Orange
Grove Susie Henderson http//florida.theorangegr
ove.org/og
Two Examples
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Open Discussion of Funding Sources for your
Repository

• Legislature
• Re-allocation
• Grant/s
• Entrepreneurial
• Corporate partnerships/sponsorship
• Institutional support
• Consortia
• Private donors/endowments

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