A Faculty/Staff/Student Team for Collaboration in Developing Mobile Applications in the Software Engineering Course

Arturo I Concepcion, Sunny Lin, Tiffany Chiang, Patrick O'Connor, Michael Korcha, Darnell Shumpert

2014

Abstract

A faculty/staff/student team was used as a collaboration model to develop, maintain, and improve mobile applications built for use by students on the campus of California State University, San Bernardino. The team was developed in the software engineering class where the projects are mobile applications requested by real clients in the campus. After the class is over, the students continue the development through independent studies and senior projects. During this time, the students work with a team of student interns and staff from the Administrative Computing Services, Information Technology Division of the campus until the mobile applications are published in both Google Play and Apple App Store. Using the CSUSB Student Opinion of Teaching Effectiveness (SOTE) surveys of the software engineering classes of 2009 – 2013, we found that students learn tremendously through hands-on experience and actual interactions with real clients, and also found that the principles and concepts of software engineering are learned better.

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in Harvard Style

I Concepcion A., Lin S., Chiang T., O'Connor P., Korcha M. and Shumpert D. (2014). A Faculty/Staff/Student Team for Collaboration in Developing Mobile Applications in the Software Engineering Course . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-020-8, pages 260-267. DOI: 10.5220/0004839102600267


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu14,
author={Arturo I Concepcion and Sunny Lin and Tiffany Chiang and Patrick O'Connor and Michael Korcha and Darnell Shumpert},
title={A Faculty/Staff/Student Team for Collaboration in Developing Mobile Applications in the Software Engineering Course},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2014},
pages={260-267},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004839102600267},
isbn={978-989-758-020-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - A Faculty/Staff/Student Team for Collaboration in Developing Mobile Applications in the Software Engineering Course
SN - 978-989-758-020-8
AU - I Concepcion A.
AU - Lin S.
AU - Chiang T.
AU - O'Connor P.
AU - Korcha M.
AU - Shumpert D.
PY - 2014
SP - 260
EP - 267
DO - 10.5220/0004839102600267