|
|
Impact
ELEONET aims to intermediate between the offer and the demand of educational content within the European eLearning market, giving a concrete answer to the lack of efficiency that actually affects the communication along the entire eLearning value chain:
Metadata will be provided by the publishers joining the network through DOI registration on Learning Objects (LOs), intended as "any item or collection of content created with the intention of making it available and/or discoverable in digital form via the internet, either free or for a charge, to another party for teaching and/or learning purposes"
- LO producers will have the opportunity to make their products available to the whole European market achieving a greater level of visibility and searchability for their educational content;
- Learning communities will be facilitated in the search and retrieval of the wished educational contents;
- Intermediaries between LO rights holders and final users, such as DRM providers and clearing houses, which will be facilitated in negotiating IP rights thanks to the standardization of LOs identification system.
Only content producers will pay for the service, while intermediaries and learning communities will access the system for free, so as to ensure rapid adoption of the system.
Revenues for system maintenance will come from DOI sales and registrant annual fees.
A sufficient mass of metadata is a key factor and this is pursued by the co-operation at international level: launching the services in four large European markets(UK, Germany, Italy and Spain) is the first step of a wider international strategy: after validating the system in these countries, it would be easier to propose it elsewhere, exploiting the networks joined by the different partners.
In order to achieve interoperability with the international eLearning community, the project will also build a "community of use" within the larger set of federated CORDRA repositories.
|
