Delgado Kloos, CarlosIbáñez Espiga, María BlancaAlario-Hoyos, CarlosMuñoz Merino, Pedro JoséEstévez Ayres, Iria ManuelaFernández Panadero, María CarmenVillena Román, Julio2023-01-242023-01-242016-04-10Delgado Kloos, C., Ibañez, M. B., Alario-Hoyos, C., Munoz-Merino, P. J., Estevez Ayres, I., Fernández Panadero, C. & Villena, J. (10-13 April 2016). From software engineering to courseware engineering [proceedings]. 2016 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.978-1-4673-8633-3https://hdl.handle.net/10016/36353Proceedings of: 2016 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 10-13 April 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe appearance of MOOCs has contributed to the use of educational technology in new contexts. As a consequence, many teachers face the challenge of creating educational content (courseware) to be offered in MOOCs. Although some best practices exist, it is true that most of the content is being developed without much thought about adequacy, reusability, maintainability, composability, etc. The main thesis at this paper is that we are facing a "courseware crisis" in the same way as there was a "software crisis" 50 years ago, and that the way out is to identify good engineering discipline to aid in the development of courseware. We need Courseware Engineering in the same way as at those times we needed Software Engineering. Therefore, the challenge is now to define and develop fundamentals, tools, and methods of Courseware Engineering, as an analogy to the fundamentals, tools, and methods that were developed in Software Engineering.7eng© 2016 IEEEMOOCsSPOCsCourseware crisisCourseware engineeringconference outputTelecomunicacioneshttps://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2016.7474695open access11221128Proceedings of the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2016, 10-13 April 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAECC/0000024069