Title
From software engineering to courseware engineering.
Abstract
The appearance of MOOCs has contributed to the use of educational technology in new contexts. As a consequence, many teachers face the challenge of creating educational content (courseware) to be offered in MOOCs. Although some best practices exist, it is true that most of the content is being developed without much thought about adequacy, reusability, maintainability, composability, etc. The main thesis at this paper is that we are facing a "courseware crisis" in the same way as there was a "software crisis" 50 years ago, and that the way out is to identify good engineering discipline to aid in the development of courseware. We need Courseware Engineering in the same way as at those times we needed Software Engineering. Therefore, the challenge is now to define and develop fundamentals, tools, and methods of Courseware Engineering, as an analogy to the fundamentals, tools, and methods that were developed in Software Engineering.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference
MOOCs,SPOCs,courseware crisis,courseware engineering
Field
DocType
ISSN
Educational technology,Best practice,Software engineering,Analogy,Engineering,Composability,Reusability,Maintainability,Software crisis,Social software engineering
Conference
2165-9567
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
7