Abstract:
The development of e-learning materials is typically
acknowledged as an expensive, complicated, and lengthy
process, often producing materials that are of low quality and
difficult to adapt and maintain. It has always been a challenge
to identify proper e-learning materials that can be reused at a
reasonable cost and effort. In this paper, software engineering
reuse principles are applied to e-learning materials
development process. These principles are then applied and
implemented in a prototype that is integrated to an open-source
course management systems. The reuse of existing e-learning
materials is beneficial in improving developers of e-learning
materials productivity. E-learning material reuse is performed,
in this research, based on construct’s granularity rather than on
unified constructs of one size . In addition, search for potential
reusable constructs is performed using a taxonomy of majors
and subjects. This taxonomy can be detailed further as needed.
To narrow down the search, one may specify additional
criteria, including the level of students, the language used, the
format of the material, …etc. Finally, keywords can be
provided to specify potential reusable constructs.
