Share.TEC Final Project Report (user-oriented version)

This report provides an overview of Share.TEC, a three-year project cofunded by the European Commission (eContentplus programme) that supports access to, exchange and re-use of digital resources and practitioner experiences within Teacher Education at European level. Digital resources are in fact powerful vehicles of educational innovation that can help build bridges among the different teacher training cultures in Europe. The Share.TEC system connects a number of different teacher training related repositories and offers a unified access point and query mechanism that adapts to the user's specific language and cultural context. This helps to enhance both individual practice and also to enrich established communities through sharing on a broader scale. The report aims to provide an overall picture of the project and its outcomes in order to foreground some key learning from the project and draw attention to some of the results achieved. Readers interested in the technological dimension of Share.TEC (the portal, metadata models, etc.) are likely to find the full version of the Final Project Report (available at www.share-tec.eu) to be the one closest to their concerns. On the other hand, readers more interested in the usage and development side of Share.TEC may find this document useful to get an idea of the portal from the user's viewpoint and how Share.TEC is positioned in the panorama of digital resources and Teacher Education.