Learning Object Repositories : Problems and Promise

On September 22-24, 2002, under the auspices of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a group of twenty – two educators and representatives of the elearning industry met on the campus of the University of California, Irvine to consider the state of the reuse and sharing of learningrelated web-based material. These people were brought together with the notion that reuse and sharing of elearning material had not met the expectations of people in higher education and in the broader world of elearning, and, in fact, the lack of widespread reuse and sharing was becoming a crucial limitation on the growth and impact of education delivered over the web. This is a summary of that meeting and is based on the responses of the participants (see Appendix A) and on another summary of the meeting prepared by Reid Cushman, available at http://unex.uci.edu/distance/seminar/more_info/Hewlett_postseminar_report.pdf.