A CANDLE to light the way?

The changing nature of education and training has challenges which have not been adequately addressed despite persistent promises that it will herald an era of globalisation. One of those challenges is the regular reuse of educational material developed elsewhere. Information Technology (IT) is in particular need of such reuse because of the rate at which the domain is changing and the inability of individual organizations to keep their educational and training material current. To accomplish this requires the development of an open, flexible and most importantly, acceptable, platform. The CANDLE project is a European Commission funded project which has taken on this challenge by designing and developing a state of the art system. The use of metadata to classify content at different levels of granularity and an information broker architecture are two components of the system.