Borrowing your neighbor's tools

The folks from Sinclair gave a nice presentation this morning on their process for creating resuable learning objects. What I think is special their approach is that they are creating tools or templates that can be populated with content specific to each faculty members needs. These include things like slide shows, flash cards and timelines that are built with flash or javascript. Each also meets basic accessibility requirements.

So many learning objects in the various repositories cannot be modified. While there is great material out there, sometimes it is either too much or not quite on target to meet the immediate learning objective.

Are you using or creating learning obejcts? Do you use common templates to deliver content?