EDUCATION BROKER ― A SERVICE PROVIDER ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING LEARNING NETWORKS

摘要

Since 1996 experts discuss educational broking as a new possibility to reduce the production costs of e-learning-content. The objective of educational brokering is to provide customised learning materials in respect to the specific needs of the learners. On the base of a learning profile, the Education Broker has three different forms of delivering e-learning materials, whereby the providing costs of learning materials increase with the complexity of the required services (see Fig. 1): 1. Selecting: Finding existent materials/courses und broker it to the customer. 2. Re-Targeting: If there are no usable materials as a whole, the Education Broker can use existing learning elements for producing a new learning offer. Therefore, he has to adapt the materials due to the specific needs of the target group. 3. Customised Production: If there are no usable materials at all, the Education Broker has to produce the whole materials by himself.