In recent years, eLearning has received much publicity, discussion and critique. In this paper we aim to step back from this and review the contexts and purposes of eLearning. In so doing we discuss the roles and goals of education; particularly education to meet the often expressed needs to develop skills for lifelong learning and for active participation in the workplace and society. We take ...

One of the problems with eLearning platforms when collating together documents from different resources is the retrieval of documents and their accessibility. By providing documents with additional metadata using Language Technologies one enables users to access information more effectively. In this paper we present an overview of the objectives and results achieved for the LT4eL Project, which...

This paper examines the requirements for eLearning Object Metadata, in order to appropriately support pedagogic and economic goals as well as service oriented architectures like the Grid. The standard IEEE LOM is being tested against these requirements. In conclusion, it can be said that while current eLearning practices are well supported by the standard, the main insufficiencies concern a) th...

This paper presents different aspects in developing socially inclusive eLearning models to help people with disabilities improving their work life and facilitating their integration in small and medium sized companies (SMEs) or in other organizations. Two international cooperation that have the main aim of developing and implementing eLearning models for people with disabilities who work for di...

In the paper we present how usability and accessibility requirements can be assured and validated in the whole life cycle of eLearning. On a 4-phase eLearning cycle, which includes adaptation features to cover the particular needs of each learner, we have included the evaluation of usability and accessibility requirements. We have performed this evaluation on an accessible standard-based open-s...

The goal of this invited editorial is to introduce a special section of the IEEE-RITA journal, which contains two selected papers of ISELEAR'10, the First Workshop on Software Engineering for eLearning held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2010. The articles selected describe concrete instances concerning the application of tools from Software Engineering in the context of the development of eL...