Towards Distributed Learning Organizational Memories

This paper presents an analyze of a learning organizational memory and some disadvantages that such a centralized application contains. One issue is the reuse of a prototype giving access to learning resources, outside the university where it was created, by teachers of the same domain, even if they are very interested to do so. One attempt for resolving this problem is to integrate distributed learning object repositories. Two candidate technologies are envisaged and presented here. The main consequence of the openness of a memory to a larger group of teachers coming from different universities willing to share resources is the creation of a community of practice. One important task of this community is then the management of semantics used for indexing resources and in particular the life cycle of ontologies. Key-Words: Learning Objects, Ontology, Organizational Memory, Peer-to-peer, Semantic Web Service, Community of practice.