MetaCampus REAL Raising Public Awareness of Science and Technology (Proposal-No RPAM-2002-00033)

The MetaCampus Marketplace (MM) is the result of the project IST-2000-26314 METACAMPUS. It offers a user-friendly life-long learning portal to assist citizens in their selection and purchase of those 3rd party learning resources best fitting their needs, preferences and profile. The MM is based on various technologies related to the adult learning market and therefore offers the following services: (1) Training Consultant, an intelligent agent that prescribes and recommends learning assets depending on user profile; (2) Learning Resources Catalog, dynamically updated by resource providers; (3) Learning Content Assembler, a tool that allows tailoring contents from different resources; (4) e-payment system, that supports cards, direct debit and transfer transactions; (5) Authentication Broker, based on single sign on and certified users, enabling the access to contents from different providers by registering only once in MetaCampus. The purpose of MM is to make learning resources available in a sophisticated way whilst providing customised on-line training, consulting and professional development aswell as qualification services to citizens and employees. It takes the approach of either consumer (home) based learning and/or (on-the-job) training. It addresses both the learning resource provider and also the educational community. In terms of supply and demand there are a number of specific objectives involved when confirming the adequacy of the MM services. These services are then exploited in Europe. The specific objectives are (1) to examine the suitability of the MM portal in two different domains: vocational learning and home/personal learning (2) to evaluate existing draft pricing policies and the already made financial model; (3) to elaborate a definitive business plan before Initial Deployment. These objectives are achieved by conducting market validation in three different countries. While the Spanish and Belgian pilots are focused in the vocational domain (workforce learning, in-company training and/or specialized learning), the German pilots are focused in the home/personal domain.

Participants	Country		Contact
Atos Origin	E		Solenn Le Goff solenn.legoff(at)atosorigin.com
Direcció General d'Ordenació i innovació Educativa (DGOIE)	E		Joan Badia joan.badiap(at)gencat.net
Universidad Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)	E		Ferran Giménez fgimenez(at)uoc.edu
France Telecom R&D	F		Patrick Duclos-Montagne patrick.duclosmontagne(at)rdfrancetelecom.com
Le Forem	B		Jeand-Claude Xhenenmont jeanclaude.xhenenmont(at)forem.be
Ernst Klett Verlag GmbH (EC)	D		Wolfgang Volz w.volz(at)klett.de
University of Cologne	D		Nadine Hofstedde nadine.hofstedde(at)uni-koeln.de
Gestión del Conocimiento SA (CGEC)	E		Antoni Riu ariu(at)gec.es