Campus Content: An Infrastructure for Sharing and Reuse of Teaching Experience and e-Content

Abstract

Investments in the development of high-quality learning content are often lost and successful applications of pedagogical designs are difficult to find and adapt to other contexts because individuals and groups work in isolation. They also lack effective means to codify and share their assets with peers teaching in the same or a similar subject area. CampusContent is a DFG-funded center of excellence for e-learning that develops methods andfacilitating the exchange and concerted development of learning content and pedagogic expertise. This article sketches core methodological and technical contributions of this project and examines their potential to improve distance education. For open and distance teaching practitioners sharing and reuse educational knowledge is of particular concern because the designand implementation of computer-based interactive learning (support) environments require efforts that extend the resources they usually have available.