JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 4(10): 780-791, doi: 10.3217/jucs-004-10-0780
An Education Broker Toolset for Web Course Customization
expand article infoChristian Langenbach, Freimut Bodendorf
‡ University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Open Access
Abstract
Within an Electronic Education Market an Electronic Education Mall is defined as a virtual service center to support various transaction processes by providing a technological platform with appropriate value-added services and interfaces for suppliers and customers. In this context, an Education Broker service is of central importance because the quality of the learning process is strongly determined by the quality of the available materials and their configuration to an integrated course according to a pedagogical concept and the respective customers' needs. To support these tasks an Education Broker toolset is introduced which allows to select the 'right' elements out of a set of generally suitable learning modules, to adjust and structure the chosen learning modules to an integrated course in a pedagogically and didactically useful way, to add navigational guides, to provide added values and to deliver the integrated course to allow an intuitive application by the student.
Keywords
Electronic Education Market, Electronic Education Mall, Value-Added Services, Education Broker, Web Course Customization, Education Broker Toolset