Splashing in Ponds and Pools
Wilbert Kraan,
CETIS,
Mar 18, 2004
Survey article about POOL, the peer to peer learning object sharing system. POOL becomes more important these days because of its affiliation with the eduSource porject. "Perhaps the most important lesson is that it is quite feasible to let informal P2P networks interoperate with more centralised and professionaly administered repositories, without all parts of the network having to talk the same protocol at all times for all purposes." eduSource, which will be staging an online launch event at the end of the month (full details in OLDaily tomorrow), connects with POOL as well as with more established institutional repositories. George Siemens, who used POOL but couldn't find the respources he needs (these were pre-eduSource days), notes, "The paradox of repositories is that most people want to use them, not contribute to them." The evidence doesn't bear this out. Look at CLOE's example: people have contributed, but in only one case was a resource re-used. I think that re-use will be harder to generate than content creation.
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