The Educational Value Chain as modelling tool in reengineering efforts

Abstract: Educational models are used within an institution to describe different educational components and the existing relationships. 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 to act as a basis for improving 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