Educational Software: Case Studies and Development Methods [Guest editorial]

The goal of this invited editorial is to introduce an IEEE-RITA special issue on case studies and development methods of educational software. The special issue integrates thoroughly revised and extended versions of four outstanding papers presented at the 14th International Symposium on Computers in Education (SIIE'12), held in Andorra in October 2012, as well as at the third workshop on software engineering for e-learning (ISELEAR'12), which was collocated as a satellite event of SIIE'12. The special issue also includes one position paper concerning different perspectives of software development for e-learning, which mirrors the discussions on the topic maintained during ISELAR'12.