The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources that support learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges, 
represented as mysterious wrapped "packages", from a Flash animation for a chemistry lab to a faculty development program. See how we tripled our collection with a friendly competition for software prizes. Learn how we are syndicating content with RSS news feeds.
What is in a Package? Each MLX package is represented by its "packing slip" containing all of the information about the item, and it can include web links to online materials or relevant resources. Inside you can find any kind of file that can be uploaded from a computer- documents, presentations, animations, audio, video, images, etc.
The MLX is fully searchable by title, people's name, discipline, college, and description. All Maricopa employees can instantly create accounts that allow them into the "loading dock" the place they enter the information about their submitted packages. They also have a unique web address that displays their MLX "inventory" (example).
What is this "Great Race"? As an incentive to building up the resources in the MLX, we are running a friendly competition. Every six months we track the number of items submitted, and award substantial prizes of software to the colleges that contribute the most items.
The warehouse is open at:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/
