Tele-Education Process Modelling Supported by The ODP Enterprise Viewpoint Language

This paper reports on applying the ODP enterprise viewpoint in the domain of tele-education. The work is conducted as part of a research activity1 that aims at designing a tele-education system to support planning, execution and evaluation of dynamic distributed educational processes. We explore the ODP enterprise viewpoint as a basis for communication and co-operation between educational scientists and ODP systems designers involved in the design process. Our application of the enterprise viewpoint involves four main steps. First, an educational language is proposed to describe educational processes in generic terms. Second, a set of appropriate enterprise language concepts is selected. Third, a relationship is established between the educational language and enterprise language concepts. Fourth, an educational process is modelled in terms of an entity-oriented model and a behaviour-oriented model. It is hoped that the experience gained in this exercise will provide useful feedback t...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: EDOC
• Authors: Cees Volman, Val Jones, Marten van Sinderen, Ing Widya, Eddy Michiels
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, EDOC 1997, Educational, Enterprise Language Concepts, ODP Enterprise Viewpoint