edusamm

edusamm is a notional open educational initiative created as a case study to illustrate how a decentralized learning platform might function. Conceived in discussions around open pedagogy, it combines a digital repository of openly licensed resources with collaborative authoring, peer assessment, and discussion tools.

Concept and scope: The project envisions learners in formal and informal settings accessing modular, interoperable courses. Content is published under permissive licenses to maximize reuse, remix, and redistribution. The platform emphasizes accessibility, multilingual support, and inclusive pedagogy.

Features: Core components include a modular course template system, a search-enabled resources library, discussion forums, peer-review workflows, and analytics dashboards for instructors and learners. Interoperability is achieved through adherence to open standards and export/import capabilities with common learning management systems.

Governance and sustainability: edusamm is depicted as community-governed, with rotating stewards and a transparent decision-making process. Content contributions are moderated by volunteers and subject to community validation. Financial sustainability is considered through donations, grants, and optional premium services (in the notional model).

Reception and influence: In educational technology discourse, edusamm serves as a reference point for exploring challenges in open collaboration, licensing, and long-term maintenance. Critics highlight governance complexity and the risk of fragmenting standards.

See also: Open Educational Resources, Open pedagogy, Learning management systems, Collaborative learning.