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Educational content is often shared among different educators and is enriched, adapted and in general repurposed so that it can be re-used in different contexts. This paper exploits the various aspects of object-centered sociality that the educational resource can manifest in a participatory virtual community of authors and learners These social facets nclude (a) the obvious connections via common tags;(b) connections based on collective usage and other related interaction of human users;(c) social connections based on the inheritance as realized via educational content repurposing;(d) semantic connections and similarities of accompanying metadata. The concept of exploiting the various aspects of educational resources as social objects is shown in the implementation of the MetaMorphosis+ social network for educational resource sharing in health sciences.