Learning object repositories as a way to teachers communities?

Abstract

This paper presents a short part of a larger comparative study of national or international projects and existing Web sites, aiming at creating learning objects repositories and presenting themselves as environments for building virtual communities. The general description of selected sites and projects is followed by the identification of key factors, out of these accessibility to public, browsing and contributing materials, publishing rules and functions are illustrated, compared, and discussed in the paper. The authors, also the developers of one of the compared sites (Telmae), aim to help the project managers to identify critical features, which might affect the project sustainability and maintenance of the site after financial sources are restricted