Author:
Muthu Ramachandran
Affiliation:
Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Software Engineering Management, Active Learning, Group Project, Project Supervision, Collaborative Learning.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Active Learning
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Classroom Management
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Computer-Supported Education
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Educating the Educators
;
e-Learning
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
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Instructional Design
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Learning Analytics
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Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
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Pattern Recognition
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Project Based Learning and Engineering Education
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Theory and Methods
Abstract:
Educating software engineers in software management have long been hard both in academia and in
industry. It is extremely difficult to educate software engineering management techniques actively.
Historically, we have been quite used to educate in programming in a classroom and in a lab with
instructions Teaching any management aspects has been traditionally based on instructions and case studies.
We have adopted an active based learning approach to teach final year BSc students in Software
Engineering. We let the final year students manage group projects carried out by level 5 students. Mainly,
we don’t come across a large real-world case study. This work on active learning has changed our way of
teaching software engineering and it has made a significant impact on the way the students learning and
have been taught traditionally. This research has also proposed an information system model for
Technology Enhanced Active Learning and Teaching (ALT) with emphasis on three key principle
s for
teaching Software Engineering: divergent thinking, collaborative learning, and learning through
differentiated assessments. More than 90% of students felt they had gained knowledge more quickly with
active learning. The ALT model is part of the large scale technology enhanced learning for future learning
environments which has been developed adopting most of computer science courses and specialist module.
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