Are there benefits for education from exploring enterprise scenarios?
In this paper we use the phrase ‘developments in the enterprise domain’ to refer to changes in the operational practices of modern enterprises and the e-business technologies used to support those evolving practices. An underlying assertion within this paper is that anyone involved with the design, development, delivery or administration of educational scenarios will either directly or indirectly be affected by developments in the enterprise domain. Many sections of this paper are about describing some of those potential effects and influences. It is an aim to observe and learn from these developments and then, either by analogy or by direct comparison, it is intended to predict or influence some of the changes that are appropriate or inevitable for educational practices and the educational technology used to support those practices. There are many facets to this discussion and many that will by necessity be ignored in a brief conference paper. The facets that will be highlighted here
