maricopa learning exchange (MLX)

The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.
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New in the warehouse! » A few more MLX Special Collections are now available. Along with Chandler-Gilbert's Service Learning Projects, Nutrition Teaching Resources, there are many new items in the Blackboard Support Materials. We also have a new collection started of digital stories. Plus we have all the session materials from the 2005 Ocotillo Retreat and the Faculty Professional Growth Summer Collections set is growing as 2005 reports are submitted

At last count, the MLX inventory includes 1821 "packages" of learning items.

5 Packages

1. Indigenous America: Challenging Dominant Ways of Viewing
(American Indian Studies, Sociology, English and Women's Studies)

2. Project Until and the Chemistry Scholars Program
(Chemistry)

3. Cross-Disciplinary Activities Focused on Sustainability
(Physics, chemistry, math)

4. Improving Research Article Literacy: A Collaborative Online Project
(Psychology, Library Science)

5. Changing Mindset to Change Motivation of Freshman College Students
(Math, English, Psychology, Counseling)

more recent packages...

Greetings from the CEO "Thanks for stopping by the MLX! As of this very moment, we have 1821 "packages" and have plenty of room to store more. For general information about us, see our brief overview. Or step right up and search our warehouse. And if you are from Maricopa, check out the new 1-2-3 guide to creating packages."

Latest from the PR Department The Auricle weblog "Learning Technologies in Higher Education" gives a glowing review of the MLX (Apr 24, 2004)...

Take a guided tour with Biff Cantrell, as he guides you through the inner parts of the MLX! See Mysteries Revealed! Inside the Maricopa Learning eXchange presented at the Spring 2004 New Media Consortium Online Conference.

Local Maricopa presentations made for Glendale Community College (Dec 12, 2003), FIPP Interns (Sep 30, 2003), Academic Affairs (Aug 4, 2003), Mesa Community College (Aug 20, 2003)

Maricopa Learning eXchange at the League for Innovation Conference (Oct 20, 2003)... "Building an Innovation Collection (with a bit of Competition and Bribery)" (League for Innovation CIT, Oct 20, 2003). For this presentation, we created a new narrated audio tour of the MLX Loading Dock (created with Macromedia Breeze). See the continuing adventures of "Lora" and "Boris" in Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Weblogs, and Trackback (NMC Online Conference Oct 14, 2003).

More is available from the PR folks!

Update from the Legal Eagles We have recently adopted the by attribution license rights from Creative Commons and these now apply to all MLX packages.

New MLX Syndication Service! See this new development that allows Maricopa college web sites to easily include dynamically updated college-specific content from the MLX or anyone else can access the 10 most recent MLX packages via an RSS feed:
MLX Newest 10 (XML news feed for syndication)
We also provide XML feeds by discipline and any search result can be linked as a customized RSS feed.