Method and apparatus for correlating educational requirements

An educational planning tool for correlating educational programs to guiding criteria, comprising:

• a first storage medium containing a central knowledge base of conformed educational elements;
• and
• a correlator for correlating components of the guiding criteria to the conformed educational elements, the correlator connected to retrieve the educational elements from the knowledge base;
• an interface module for inputting to the correlator a guiding key to identify correlations between individual ones of the guiding criteria components and corresponding conformed educational elements;
• and
• a second storage medium for storing the guiding key.

A method of identifying external components correlated to a component of an instructional program, comprising the steps of:

• storing a first set of components on a first storage medium;
• producing a first key indicating correlation between the first set of components and elements in a central knowledge base of conformed elements, the elements being stored on a second storage medium;
• storing a second set of components on a third storage medium, the second including resource components,
• producing a second key indicating correlation between the resource components and the elements in the central knowledge base;
• selecting a component of the instructional program;
• producing a third key indicating correlation between the instructional program component and the elements in the central knowledge base;
• identifying elements in the central knowledge base in response to the third key;
• and
• identifying components in the first and third storage medium correlating to the identified elements in the central knowledge base.