  This study responds to the first measure undertaken on July 17, 2015 by
IDNEUF prject, that of an exploratory analysis of the existing portals and
aggregators of free French-language academic resources. The idea is to provide
an overview of the most common trends and practices in the constitution and
organization of digital online learning resource portals. The study of these
trends would help to define the appropriate choices and conditions for
designing the future common French-language portal and to optimize its services
for the conservation, exchange, integration and pooling of educational
resources within the distributed technological framework of French-language
universities. This framework should therefore be interconnected, transparent
and interoperable, reflecting both the linguistic and cultural specificities of
partner institutions and their ambitions for technological and economic
developments. The development of this first exploratory study of portals would
take into account the two technological solutions discussed at the task force
meeting on 17 July 2015.1. The alternative of extending the capabilities of
France's Digital University's search engine to French-language academic
institutions will require that the experience of the UNT (Numerical Thematic
University) be taken into account as a key player in the digital portal In
higher education (supnumerique.gouv.fr). Thus, the present study should first
target the portals of the UNT as models replicable or extensible to the French
context by analyzing their technological choices, their modes of organization
and their modes of use and communication;2. Next, the study will not be limited
to analyzing UNT portals. The proposed hypothesis to create a common portal of
French portals from the existing university portals also requires exploring
this possibility and proposing an analysis of existing portals that function
according to other organizational models.
