Aims and 

The primary mission of EducaNext is to serve and support all individuals in the academic community, who are 

Objectives 

dedicated to increasing the excellence of higher education and research through distributed collaboration by 

providing wide access to its academic exchange portal.  

More specifically, EducaNext will allow users to 

Participate in Knowledge Communities;  

Communicate with other experts in a field;  

Exchange Learning Resources, such as electronic textbooks, recorded lectures, presentations, lecture 

notes, case studies, quizzes, etc.  

Deliver distributed Educational Activities, such as distributed courses, lectures, tutoring sessions, etc.  

Distribute electronic content under license;  

Work together on the production of Educational Material ; 

Collaborate on knowledge resources: collaborative content production projects, integrated informal 

knowledge, etc 

There are approximately 189 HEIs registered users from around the world, many from Austria, Germany, 

France and 7 from the UK.   

The UBP is a modular software programme designed in alignment with existing metadata standards, 

including open interfaces based on the W3C Web Service standards, for the incorporation of existing 

Learning Management Systems 

Metadata 

unable to find information at time of writing 

Standards 

Content 

unable to find information at time of writing 

Packaging 

Features 

The project is ambitious with rich media formats which takes it beyond a typical repository set up. 

Available in English, Deutch, Slovenian and Spanish. 

EducaNext co ordinates peer review of online content on two levels   formal and informal. 

A team of evaluators with different backgrounds, including experienced instructional designers, media 

designers, domain experts, programmers, and end users, are invited to take part in a forum to analyse 

and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of online courses. 

EducaNext have published a document entitled  Metadata Quality Guidelines  which is available on the 

EducaNext website. 

EducaNext retain copyright on all material 

Unsure of size of collection 

compliance to interoperability standards (unable to find information at time of writing) 

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