TY - GEN
T1 - Educating software engineers of the future
T2 - 2011 24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2011, Co-located with the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE
AU - Richardson, Ita
AU - Reid, Louise
AU - Seidman, Stephen B.
AU - Pattinson, Bob
AU - Delaney, Yvonne
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Software Engineering graduates are expected to enter the workforce with both technical and soft skills. In addition, software quality is a topic that is becoming increasingly important both because of educational and industry requirements. Software engineering lecturers need to bring their research into the classroom. Bringing all of these together can pose the lecturer with a dilemma that is not easily solvable. This paper presents how problem-based learning, a pedagogical methodology that is popular in medicine and other disciplines, can be used to accomplish these goals in a single course module. It describes a research project which analyses the implementation of problem-based learning within a M. Sc. Software Engineering Quality Module, and evaluates the outcomes against published expectations.
AB - Software Engineering graduates are expected to enter the workforce with both technical and soft skills. In addition, software quality is a topic that is becoming increasingly important both because of educational and industry requirements. Software engineering lecturers need to bring their research into the classroom. Bringing all of these together can pose the lecturer with a dilemma that is not easily solvable. This paper presents how problem-based learning, a pedagogical methodology that is popular in medicine and other disciplines, can be used to accomplish these goals in a single course module. It describes a research project which analyses the implementation of problem-based learning within a M. Sc. Software Engineering Quality Module, and evaluates the outcomes against published expectations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960016631&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CSEET.2011.5876161
DO - 10.1109/CSEET.2011.5876161
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960016631
SN - 9781457703485
T3 - 2011 24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2011 - Proceedings
SP - 91
EP - 100
BT - 2011 24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2011 - Proceedings
Y2 - 22 May 2011 through 24 May 2011
ER -
