Abstract
The paper deals with the key problems of learning objects, metadata standards,taxonomies, search queries, and other 'illnesses' of the existing learning object repositories. As an example of national effort on this field, and concrete model of solution the author presents in the main part of the paper TELMAE Educational Portal and Learning Object Repository, developed at the Laboratory of Distance Education, Charles University in Prague, that have been offered to science teachers, educators and students in the Czech Republic since 2001.
The Telmae portal consists of teachers' and learners' online supportive environment, gateway to online courses, online journals, learning object repository EDUPORT and SCORM based 'unified gateway' to learning objects at 6 Czzech universities, participating in the project.The key factors,and the possible benefit for virtual learning community of teacher and learners, arising from the creative background of Telmae, are discussed at the end of the paper.