Universities are the place where two main processes take place:
1) students reach the highest grades of education
2) cutting-edge research<p>Most of the people working inside universities work both as teachers and researchers, but they perform the two tasks in very different ways.<p>Modern research activities take often (almost always?) advantage of international teams of people, peer review and in some ways go beyond the single university.<p>Didactics, on the other hand, is far back behind as far as I can see (in Italy, at least): every teacher seems to be reinventing the wheel in every single course of every single faculty in every single university, even if most subjects are widely overlapped.<p>I think this is a big disadvantage for both teachers and students: for the formers it means more work; for the latters it mean a more partial vision of the subject and more error prone didactic contents. If I were a teacher, I'd like to see other teachers' contents, peer review them and maybe use them as my course (under some sort of licence). As a student, I would like to be given easy access to high quality didactic contents even if they are not written by my teacher or inside my university.<p>I also think wikipedia and google are not enough here, since I'm talking about university-teacher curated university-grade contents. Arxiv and similars neither, because I'm not looking for papers.<p>Isn't this a major issue in the university didactics? What is the state of didactics in your university?