October 2006 Volume 9 Number 4

Figure 9. The classical three-step learning/teaching strategy augmented by didactic methods and the association
of a content didactic template
The course engineering process
Figure 10. A sample course specification
Domain engineering is engineering for reuse and results in a host of learning assets and organizes them in an
organizational structure. Course engineering is engineering with reuse and employs the results of the domain
engineering process to construct from them, with moderate effort, context-specific courses in the form of
learning objects (We use the term ''course'' as a general notion that refers to any learning/teaching event such as
course, seminar, lesson, etc.).
We pursue two goals. One is to fuse the outputs of content engineering and didactics engineering (or in AOP
jargon, to weave them). The second goal is to do the fusion as much as possible in an automated fashion, by
drawing on the repository.
Requirements analysis
The goal of this phase is to analyze and define the (general) requirements for the course, such as the
learning/teaching topics, target group, objectives, learning form, time frame etc. In this phase both results from
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