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The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-Scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure

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21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills (EC-TEL 2012)

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In this paper we reflect on the limitations of applying traditional requirements engineering approaches to the development of a large-scale PLE infrastructure, which is precisely the aim of a technology-enhanced learning project called ROLE. The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) approach has been proposed as an appropriate alternative. The SRE process is grounded in an agent- and goal-oriented conceptual model. The implementation of SRE prototypes was structured with a five-staged requirement lifecycle: elicitation, negotiation, selection, development and feedback. We report results of the preliminary evaluation of the prototypes and lessons learnt. Several relevant issues have been identified, including the lack of a consensual understanding of key concepts, lurking within Community of Practices (CoP), and cultural differences. Possible solutions are proposed to address the issues, including templates, mandatory voting and prioritisation model.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK

    Effie Lai-Chong Law & Arunangsu Chatterjee

  2. Computer Science 5 - Information Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    Dominik Renzel & Ralf Klamma

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  1. CASS School of Education and Communities, University of East London (UEL), Stratford Campus, Water Lane, E15 4LZ, London, UK

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  2. Knowledge Management Institute and Know-Center GmbH, Graz University of Technology (TUG), Inffeldgasse 21a,, 8010, Graz, Austria

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  3. Departamento Ingenieria Telemática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida Universidad 30,, 28911, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

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  4. Information and Communitations Technologies Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,, Roc Boronat 138, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

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Law, E.LC., Chatterjee, A., Renzel, D., Klamma, R. (2012). The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-Scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure. In: Ravenscroft, A., Lindstaedt, S., Kloos, C.D., Hernández-Leo, D. (eds) 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills. EC-TEL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33263-0_16

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