About SWITCHcollection - The Community Learning Object Repository
SWITCHcollection is a national library of reusable learning objects like courses, modules, images, video clips and text documents contributed by swiss universities
Today's Situation with e-Learning Content
- digital learning content production is increasing
- content is distributed and stored in institutional, local or private LMS or CMS
- re-using digital content for education can be tricky due to copyright issues
Problem: contents are generally not public, not retrievable, not persistent, not citable
Goals and Motivation of SWITCHcollection
- Re-use e-learning content
- Enhance intra- and inter-instituional collaboration
- Make teaching activities visible to peers and to the public
- Attract students
- Long-term archiving and distribution of content with stable URL (content lifecyle)
- Make teaching activities citable and referenceable
- Single point of entry for all kinds of e-learning contents - independently from distribution platform or learning management system
Key Requirements
- Very easy to use: easy to contribute and reuse contents
- Metadata model: simple for common usage but extensible for special applications
- Tight integration with existing learning management systems
- Customizable user interfaces
- Federation of national repositories with a single search service
- Authors control access rights, content license and usage policies