(Lynch 2003)
Including teaching materials implies learning objects, which can take a variety of forms. The educational community has perhaps already surpassed the digital library community in their development of digital object sharing (such as learning modules), for developing curriculum and courses. If we consider carefully what we may want out of our institutional repository in the future, and can choose a system which would integrate well with the hoped-for interoperability of digital libraries, it would save us headaches down the road and reduce our overall costs (in time, energy, and money).
The educational community has perhaps already surpassed the digital library community in their development of digital object sharing (such as learning modules), for developing curriculum and courses.