Sharing Education Resources
by Dominique Laporte dominique.laporte@educagri.fr
Statistics show that teachers are the prime producers of education resources, far followed by professional publishers. Besides, these publishers rely on a fistful of teachers when compared to the total number teaching in primary and secondary school systems.
We can find a good part of the mass of unknown and un-published teachers’ work on the world wide web. Because they have no competence to publish themselves on the web, the majority of the works of the others stay in digital form on their owners’ hard disks, .
First, we’ll have a wide view of the technical, human and legal problems when it comes to education resources sharing.
Then, we look at existing solutions, using two practical examples : resources platforms and databases. We’ll conclude by presenting a solution based upon P2P technology that allows, through a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), to easily make available the resources and works of the masses.