Edu-sharing

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edu-sharing: an open-source platform for learning content

edu-sharing is a free, open-source solution that helps schools and other educational groups store, manage, and share learning materials. It acts as a central repository where you can collect files, links, tools, and courses that work with different learning systems like Moodle. Through open interfaces, separate edu-sharing repositories can connect with each other and with other repositories, making it easy to exchange content and know-how across organizations and systems.

Key features
- Content management: Access and manage materials through a web interface or via WebDAV. You can search with advanced options and use various metadata sets (like LOM and Dublin Core) to describe items.
- System integration: Interfaces are available to connect with learning platforms such as Moodle, ILIAS, OLAT, and MediaWiki. A rendering service lets you use content not natively supported by these systems, including SCORM courses, QTI tests, H5P objects, audio and video files, and more.
- Reuse and licensing: Users can attach licenses (for example, Creative Commons) to content to facilitate reuse.
- Collaboration network: The edu-sharing network is coordinated by the non-profit association edu-sharing.net e.V., based in Weimar, Germany, with offices in Chongqing, China, and Krems, Austria. The association drives the ongoing development of open-source software and coordinates a community roadmap.

Origins and technology
- History: edu-sharing grew from the CampusContent project at FernUniversität in Hagen, with support from a major DFG grant (2004–2009). It evolved to serve schools and, over time, broader educational contexts.
- What it’s built on: The repository uses Alfresco as its core, with the user interface built in AngularJS and the rendering components in PHP.
- Community and leadership: The project is guided by a community-driven roadmap, reflecting input from developers, content creators, educators, and users.

System requirements
- Stable release: 8.0 final (March 2023).
- Operating systems: Linux distributions such as SLES, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS.