A Framework for the Multi-disciplinary Design of Web-Based Educational Systems

The communication and the collaboration in a multi-disciplinary team can be diminished due to the different specification tools and languages used by the diverse members of the team. The MODUWEB approach tackles this problem allowing the integration of different design perspectives through model-driven development (MDD) techniques. Such integration is completely transparent to the users of the modeling languages, that is, the designers of the Web-based educational systems, and in this way their productivity is not affected. This paper describes a prototype of a system which implements the MODUWEB approach to combine two domain specific languages dealing with different perspectives of the design of a Web-based educational system: IMS learning design for educational design and Labyrinth for Web design.