Take Shape Share
The European Repository

This project is based on the big lead that British Colleges for Further Education and Secondary Schools have built over the past 16 years in the sharing of digital learning materials. This repository contains over 30,000 learning hours of content. The repository is maintained by FENC. Members of FENC share all learning materials with each other for free.

The history of our cooperation with FENC
ROC Zeeland and ROC Westerschelde have cooperated with FENC and the Dutch Kennisnet over the past few years in order to make the FENC repository ready for international use. The following actions were executed:

1. The FENC-interface was translated into Dutch.
2. A Dutch access to the repository was created via http://www.tssdcp.nl
3. The FENC repository has been linked to a harvesting system developed by Kennisnet. With this search engine it is possible to search in various educational repositories at the same time.
4. Cooperation with Wimba has resulted in the production of a new version of Create (was Course Genie) with a Dutch interface and a metadatatool that supports international and Dutch metadata standards. With Create we have an editor with which teachers can easily produce attractive content.
5. A Dutch manual for Create has been produced and interactive online training modules of Create will be produced in the next few months.

Then why this project?
What British schools have done, establishing a community of more than 300 schools sharing content with each other for free, is a marvellous example to rest of the world. The British and Dutch efforts so far have resulted in excellent conditions to start up a European community of schols that follow the British example. In other words the Take Shape Share thought can be spread over a much wider area.