Use Case Driven Educational Content Engineering

Any software respectively information system can be perceived from the perspective of the provided functionality. The functionality is based on the very specification of requirements – the basis even for the design of a system of knowledge, skills, and competencies - Bologna based perspective. Requirements engineering works with requirements also in the form of use cases. Use cases are part of the UML standard. In terms of the hypothetical analogy between a system and a graduate, the interpretation of the student’s knowledge, skills, and competencies can be modeled by use cases. The curriculum can be represented as a model as well. A series of views on the model can point out the essential aspects of the graduate’s knowledge, skills, and competencies itself and represent a kind of commitment to the preparation of graduates. Such a graduate perception unifies the approach of several educational content developers and supports their cooperation.