Knowledge domains and automated assistance by the help of education consultants within professional web based training

Within the project e-Qualification Framework, a compound project of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, a learning platform is build. This learning platform should be able, that institutes with different backgrounds can offer their specific courses within different subjects. Inside their domains and branches is it very important that they could simply be classified, found and accessed. The main aspect of this paper is to present a domain structure that faces the requirements above as well as systems of assistance working with it. In the first section we describe the motivation for domain structuring and the pattern we developed. The second section discusses the development and implementation of an education consultant, guiding the learner through the domain structure to a suitable course. This usage should be an example for many possibilities for assistance based on a standardised domain structures.