During the design of this e-learning package, there was not yet any eXelearning community in Kyrgyzstan, but this course could become an occasion in itself to take knowledge of the potentials and to develop one national community for Kyrgyz and Russian language in Kyrgyzstan .
Such community, focused on exelearning, can start spontaneously any moment, between teachers who want share their e-learning creations, The community could be also promoted and supported by the National Agency for Vocational Education that is also promoting the knowledge of exelearning as a tool for teaching using ADB funds.
A good plan could be to develop, as a centralized resource, a shared national platform where to deposit, catalogate and retrieve the e-learning objects, but it is true that also without this important initiative, any teacher can also start immediately to work within local groupement of colleagues interested to actively collaborate in promoting exelearning use diffusion. They could implant this collaboration within one school, within a territory or a region. At national level, for the teachers involved in other activities, like the best practices circles or other national commissions or whatever activities, they could take occasion from the meetings and distance contacts to also share e-learning contents.
Regarding the further possibility to use Internet as a drive to grow up this community, we have not to forget that now a day the free online tools given by Goolge, Microsoft and other big providers for free, allow the easy sharing of contents and the online collaboration as they also give the possibility to set up blogs and other collaborative tools that are the basic elements necessary to build up a community form the scratch.
The teachers interested in this process and owning a sufficient level of proficiency in English caould also start to take contacts with the exelearning international community to set up forms of collaboration and recognition.
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A community is a social unit of any size that shares common values, or that is situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a village or town). It is a group of people who are connected by durable relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties, and who mutually define that relationship as important to their social identity and practice.[1] Although communities are usually small, community may also refer to large groups, such as national communities, international communities, and virtual communities. The word "community" is derived from the Old French comuneté which comes from the Latin communitas (from Latin communis, things held in common).[2]
In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, and risks, may be shared in common, affecting the identity of the participants, and their degree of cohesiveness.[citation needed]