Toward an Electronic Marketplace for Higher Education

Authors:
Magda Mourad;Gerard L. Hanley;Barbra Bied Sperling;Jack Gunther
Affiliations:
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;Merlot;Center for Usability in Design and Assessment;IBM Education Industry Solutions
Venue:
Computer
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Digtial content's availability has created opportunities for universities and publishers toimprove the marketplace, motivating the development of an education electronic marketplace andreshaping how academic institutions view information discovery, evaluation, and acquisition. As a firststep toward designing such a system, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and OnlineTeaching (MERLOT) and IBM collaborated in developing a framework that IBM designers used to build aprototype ede-marketplace. Evaluation in a field test indicated that this framework offers a trustedenvironment that is suitable for use in the secure creation, management, and delivery of digitalcontent. Testing in real situations helped the researchers understand business rules and services that the system must provide for each user.