The educational value chain as a modelling tool in re-engineering efforts

  • Authors:

  • Alta van der Merwe;Johannes Cronje

  • Affiliations:

  • University of South Africa;University of Pretoria

  • Venue:
  • ISICT '04 Proceedings of the 2004 international symposium on Information and communication technologies
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Educational models are used within an institution to describe different educational components and the existing relationships between them. The important components within an educational domain are in a sense similar to business environments, including institutional structures, processes and resources. In the educational domain, the developer may use educational models to gain a better understanding of the key mechanisms of the specific problem domain or as a basis for improving the current structures and operations of the different processes within the problem domain. In this paper, we introduce the educational value chain as a graphical tool that developers may use in re-engineering efforts to identify possible bottlenecks that are likely to occur, as well as providing a route to follow when determining the value that can be added by technology.