The Analysis and Implementation of E-Learning Park Nian-Shing Chen * Yueh-Chun Shih ** Department of Information Management National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, R.O.C. nschen@cc.nsysu.edu.tw* stone@cc.nsysu.edu.tw** Abstract Hosted Learning Service Provider (HLSP) is a special operational model like Application Service Provider (ASP), educational and business organizations entrust their e-learning software and system maintain to HLSP. Through Internet, students can use learning software, programs, and other services rented from HLSP. After reaching an economic scale, an E-Learning Park would eventually be formed. This study would show the operational model of an E-Learning Park, and implement a HLSP web-based instructional system–“Wisdom Master”, which is now actually running an E-Learning Park named “City Campus” (http://www.learn.com.tw). City Campus now has been entrusted by 14 educational training institutes, and has running for three years. Cyber University of NSYSU is one of them. More than fifty master level credit courses are being conducted in Cyber University of NSYSU for 3 years (totally 6 semesters), which includes, “EC and MIS Master’s certificate program” has been issued (totally 3 semesters: 177 students in first semester, 348 students in second semester, 442 students in third semester). The result is sound. Keywords: E-learning, E-training, Electronic commerce (EC), Hosted Learning Service Provider (HLSP), Application Service Provider (ASP). 1. INTRODUCTION Most of e-learning activities now are using a web-based instructional software to simulate instructional activities in a classroom, and provides many synchronous or asynchronous communication tools to achieve teaching interaction and knowledge sharing. Some web-based instructional software developing companies begin to act as a new type of Education Brokerages, and hope to provide a web-based learning environment base on current EC framework (Hämäläinen et al. 1996). In accordance with the figure of EC framework brought up by Kalakota and Whinston (1997), Hämäläinen et al. (1996) add a structural figure of education in the application part of electronic commerce. They clearly points out the services an educational brokerage could provide for its customers: course suppliers, digital libraries, validation/accreditation services, and assessment/certification services. Lang and Zhao (2000) consider the system from the technology point of view, they think that doing e- learning based on EC should at least include digital libraries, electronic publishing, workflow automation and electronic banking. Further more, they bring up an EC structure of e-learning industry form concepts like (a) interorganizational systems (IOS), (b) technology-enabled strategic alliances, and (c) transaction cost economics. They proposed five propositions that explain and predict how IT will reshape e-learning in the near future. They are digital libraries, electronic publishing, education brokerages, degree certification, and job placement (Lang and Zhao, 2000). Application Service Provider is a new way of running network service. According to the definition gave by a British market research institute Ovum (2000), ASP is that application users can use rental software