Development of e-Learning Solutions: Different Approaches, a Common Mission

As result of the discussions maintained at the panel session on Software Development for e-Learning of the third workshop on software engineering for e-Learning (ISELEAR'12), several points of view emerged regarding the conception, development, and maintenance of e-Learning solutions. This paper summarizes and confronts these points of view: 1) automated approaches; 2) combination of different methodologies; 3) emphasis on human and social aspects; 4) domain-specific development approaches, 5) model-driven/language-driven development and system integration approaches, and 6) grammar-oriented development. While these points of view support different approaches to the engineering process, all of them share a common goal: to facilitate the development of complex e-Learning applications and solutions by multidisciplinary teams of software developers, instructors, domain experts, students, and final users.

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