Publication - A Digital Market Place for Education

Authors: Woolf, Beverly Park, Lesser, Victor, Eliot, Chris, Zachary, Eyler-Walker, Klein, Mark
Title: A Digital Market Place for Education
Abstract: We describe a web-based Educational MarketPlace that matches student requests to available and appropriate resources. We address technical issues such as: 1) resource acquisition and data mining techniques to facilitate access to large-scale educational repositories; 2) negotiation, contract execution and verification of instructional resources, and 3) digital repository testbeds to evaluate agent behavior. Societal issues include understanding web-based educational interactions, individual learning processes and organizational dynamic in the distributed, digital instructional realm. The Educational MarketPlace is different from other Internet spaces in that it requires independent scoring of resources and certification of teaching. This paper discusses these issues and the open learning environment where a learner has choices; it describes how the Internet might replace the existing education monopoly and help dissolve the cottage industry of education in which a teacher handcrafts materials fixed by space and time.
Keywords: Information Retrieval
Publication: International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science and Education on the Internet (SSGRR 2000)
Location: L'Aquila, Italy
Date: August 2000
Sources: PS: /Documents/Woolf.ssgrr.62900.doc
Reference: Woolf, Beverly Park, Lesser, Victor, Eliot, Chris, Zachary, Eyler-Walker, Klein, Mark. A Digital Market Place for Education. International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science and Education on the Internet (SSGRR 2000). August 2000.
bibtex:
@article{Woolf-193,
  author    = "Beverly Park Woolf and Victor Lesser and Chris
               Eliot and Eyler-Walker Zachary and Mark Klein",
  title     = "{A Digital Market Place for Education}",
  journal   = "International Conference on Advances in
               Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science
               and Education on the Internet (SSGRR 2000)",
  month     = "August",
  year      = "2000",
  address   = "L'Aquila, Italy",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/193",
}