Learning Object Repositories (LOR) are promising ways to make high quality learning materials available to individuals as well as to private or public organizations around the world.

The emergence of LOR initiatives, mainly since 2001, has underlined a set of major scientific and technical problems that needed to be solved to make LOR’s a useful reality. The collaboration between researchers and the major LOR initiatives in Canada, USA, Europe, Australia and Japan will provide new insights and help propose specifications for innovative educational processes that can be shared and adapted across continents in spite of cultural and/or linguistic barriers.

The Quality for Reuse, Q4R, project aims at fulfilling this vision by providing tools, techniques, procedures, principles and strategies assisting in implementing quality assurance practices for high quality LOR. Further, to fully satisfy this need for quality, we will propose a Q4R Workflow model based on our partners’ Best Practices as well as our own research and experience.

This four phased projectaims at elaborating a workflow model showing when, where and how to best integrate quality assurance strategies:

Phase I: Document Best Practices of GLOBE Partners and set up website and wiki
Phase II: Invite LOR owners to participate by filling out the Best Practice Questionnaire, analyze data and extract valuable strategies.
Phase III: Elaborate an interactive workflow model and invite partcipants to validate its usefulness
Phase IV: Test the Quality Assurance model

In addition, we aim at populating the Q4R Repository with valuable Q4R Strategies, Instruments and Documents.