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Building an Educational Product: Constructive Alignment and Requirements Engineering

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Building an educational software product has two facets: software engineering and educational design. This paper proposes an approach that combines commonly used requirements engineering techniques with the educational concept of constructive alignment to develop an educational software product. The approach is novel in that it shows the direct correspondence of the engineering techniques with the constructive alignment, demonstrates its practical application through the case study project, and outlines a step-by-step procedure for using it.

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  1. Software Engineering Laboratory, Innopolis University, Universitetskaya st. 1, 420500, Innopolis, Tatarstan, Russian Federation

    Nursultan Askarbekuly, Alexandr Solovyov, Elena Lukyanchikova, Denis Pimenov & Manuel Mazzara

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    Tareq Z. Ahram

  2. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Waldemar Karwowski

  3. Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    Jay Kalra

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Askarbekuly, N., Solovyov, A., Lukyanchikova, E., Pimenov, D., Mazzara, M. (2021). Building an Educational Product: Constructive Alignment and Requirements Engineering. In: Ahram, T.Z., Karwowski, W., Kalra, J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Systems Engineering. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 271. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80624-8_44

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