Reuse and Sharing of e-Learning Materials Inside the EU

SUMMARY The paper deals with the principles of organizational, conceptual, networking and business issues concerning the reuse and sharing of the existing learning materials in Spatial Information Management (SIM) among the universities. The paper demonstrates the theoretical issues through the eduGI (Reuse and Sharing of e-Learning Courses in GI Science) project and gives an example for an e-Learning material under the topic of the “Data acquisition and integration” course developed by the University of West Hungary, at the Faculty of Geoinformatics. The paper explains the idea how to (re)use existing resources by the exchange of e-Learning courses via Internet and it lists the benefits of such kind of action.