The Cloud for a federation of repositories of molecular science Learning Objects

Abstract

G-Lorep is a technology aimed at facilitating the sharing of Learning Objects (LOs) among a federation of repositories distributed among the members of a scientific community wishing to offer them to other community members and to get them further developed by their contributions. The GLorep network structure allows each website to work stand-alone and to use at the same time a central database to share LO information on the network. Accordingly, each federate contacts the central node when it needs to update the information of its own database. At present the central node is placed on a server physically located inside the University of Perugia in order to guarantee a direct control of the system and is specialized in Molecular Science (MS) applications. The specific set of LOs considered here is related to the MS theoretical and computational foundations of the teaching course on Mechanisms and Dynamics of Chemical Reactions (MDCR).