Evaluation of the Share.Tec Repository System First Prototype

In the beginning of 2010 the first prototype of Share.TEC (www.share-tec.eu) repository system was developed. The system is designed as a highly flexible portal which is supposed to give access to a great variety of Teacher Education (TE) resources. At the center of the Share.TEC system is the repository system which stores metadata for TE resources. The resources are described and classified in detail, which allows the system to recommend certain resources to different users depending on their profiles. The basic purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which the predefined features of the system were developed in the first prototype and the extent to which the system meets the needs of the target users. For this purpose the system was initially tested by the authors of this paper and the prototype has now been offered for testing to a group of 9 volunteer university and school teachers. Having many years in teaching and training environment the teachers belong to the group of target users which can produce relevant and comprehensive interaction with the system. The feedback will be summarized in this paper and will become a milestone for the final release of the system. The test results and analysis from this paper can be successfully used by developers of similar repository systems.