Interacting with Learning Objects in a Distributed Environment

Learning objects are gaining an increasing interest in the e-learning community. Their availability in a distributed Web-based environment represents an opportunity for further developments generated by a richer context of interaction that permits to different stakeholders to use, comment and evolve available objects, thus providing each other with suggestions and insights. In this paper, we propose a distributed scenario in which users may express their comments about learning objects, point out relationships among them, and evolve a learning object in the sense of specialization. The implementation of such environment in a super peer network is outlined together with basic exploration facilities.