软件的开发不同于一般的系统软件、支撑软件和工具软件。研制开发教育软件不能仅仅依靠软件专业的技术人员，因为开发设计教育软件的人员必须具有某学科的知识结构（如物理、化学等）、学生认知结构、教学法、软件工程和计算机技术等知识结构和能力结构，即需要具有多学科交叉的学术背景才能胜任教育软件的开发工作。而教育软件工程是新兴的领域，也在不断地总结和发展中。因此，教育与信息技术的交叉学科是高校培养教育软件开发专门人才的重要途径。(he software development is different from the general system software, support software and tool software. The development of educational software can not simply rely on the technical staff of professional software, because the development of educational software design personnel must have the knowledge structure of a subject (such as physics, chemistry, etc.) students' cognitive structure, teaching method, software engineering and computer technology, the knowledge structure and ability structure, which requires interdisciplinary academic background to qualified education software development work. Education software engineering is a new field, and it is also being summarized and developed constantly. Therefore, the cross discipline of education and information technology is an important way to cultivate talents specializing in educational software development in Colleges and universities.)