%0 Journal Article
%T Distributed Repositories for Educational Content - Part 2: Technology
%A Michael Klebl
%A Bernd J. Kr£żmer
%A Annett Zobel
%A Matthias Hupfer
%J E-learning and Education
%D 2011
%I FernUniversit?t Hagen, CampusSource
%X In Part 1 of this article we discussed the need for information quality and the systematic management of learning materials and learning arrangements. Digital repositories, often called Learning Object Repositories (LOR), were introduced as a promising answer to this challenge. We also derived technological and pedagogical requirements for LORs from a concretization of information quality criteria for e-learning technology. This second part presents technical solutions that particularly address the demands of open education movements, which aspire to a global reuse and sharing culture. From this viewpoint, we develop core requirements for scalable network architectures for educational content management. We then present edu-sharing, an advanced example of a network of homogeneous repositories for learning resources, and discuss related technology. We conclude with an outlook in terms of emerging developments towards open and networked system architectures in e-learning.
%K Educational content
%K learning object repository
%K content sharing
%K repository networks
%K web portal
%U http://eleed.campussource.de/archive/7/2774