Contemporaneous Issues in e-Learning Projects of the European Union

This paper analyses the impact of changing requirements in an international (European Union) e-Learning project. As in other domains, keeping the project milestones is very important for the success of the project. Keeping the milestones in a European e-Learning project is crucial for the future development of a common learning strategy. Nevertheless, there are unexpected issues which can occur during the development of educational technologies. Applying the common implementation processes can lead to an e-Learning platform which is not fulfilling its scope. The objective of this paper is to present a release strategy of the educational platform for every European country involved, which ensures that the same information is provided throughout all participating countries. The methods applied will be different from the classic approaches and also will combine the well-known e-Learning development processes with the techniques used in other areas, like IT or software automotive processes. By analysing projects in different areas, this paper chose time as the most important factor which influences the success of a project. By managing the factor of time, even if requirement changes occur during implementation, there is still the possibility of releasing an e-Learning platform, as expected by the project stakeholder, by adapting the release strategy. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.