Learning environment for software product lines online learning applications

Abstract

The process of learning and teaching online learning has undergone many changes in line with technological developments. Education institutions have begun introducing new methods of learning this. However, it needs a huge amount of labor intensive to produce and maintain educational technologies due to its huge size (literacy, vocational education, school education, engineering and medical education) and huge variants (language, dialect). With the growing demand and at the same time would like to reduce the factor of cost, time and effort is long, then the need for an effective solution allowing rapid system development. A Software Product Line (SPL) approach is one of the best methods that can be used to develop an educational software family. The research contributes to the development of online learning SPL by studying issues in online learning SPL, identify appropriate pedagogical approach to online learning environment that is constructivism, and designing constructivist learning environment based on the theory of constructivism and design principles. In this paper, comparison between 10 VLE was tabulated against constructivist learning environment. The comparative evaluation is to discover commonalities and variabilities between online learning applications. The results should be useful as the process of domain analysis that is to document the commonalities and variabilities between SPL members. Hence, it can be used to enhance the feature model for online learning applications.