Enhancing the software engineering curriculums: A case study of the Jordanian Universities

Hanna, Samer; Jaber, Hayat; Jaber, Fawze Abu; Shalaby, Tarek Al; Almasalmeh, Ayad

doi:10.1109/cseet.2014.6816785

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“…For the research that assesses the conformance of SE curricula with SWEBOK, this research did not considered comparing with SWEBOK because it was done in a previous research by the authors [11] and the results of that research was used in this research.…”

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Reducing the Gap between Software Engineering Curricula and Software Industry in Jordan

Hanna¹,

Jaber²,

Almasalmeh³

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JSEA

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Nowadays software is taking a very important role in almost all aspects of our daily lives which gave great importance to the study field of Software Engineering. However, most of the current Software Engineering graduates in Jordan lack the required knowledge and skills to join software industry because of many reasons. This research investigates these reasons by firstly analyzing more than 1000 software job listings in Jordanian and Gulf area e-recruitment services in order to discover the skills and knowledge areas that are mostly required by software industry in Jordan and the Gulf area, and secondly comparing these knowledge areas and skills with those provided by the Software Engineering curricula at the Jordanian Universities. The awareness of the Software Engineering students and academic staff of the concluded mostly required knowledge areas and skills is measured using two questionnaires. Recommendations to decrease the gap between Software Engineering academia and industry had also been taken from a sample of software companies' manager using a third questionnaire. The results of this research revealed that many important skills such as Web applications development are very poorly covered by Software engineering curricula and that many Software engineering students and academic staffs are not aware about many of the mostly needed skills to join industry.

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“…Among the mostly related research in the fourth category of comparing SE curricula with SWEBOK are: In 2014, Hanna and colleagues [11] analyzed the SE curricula of 13 Jordanian Universities and compared it with the knowledge areas suggested by SWEBOK and it was found that many of the knowledge areas are not covered by the SE curricula.…”

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Reducing the Gap between Software Engineering Curricula and Software Industry in Jordan

Hanna¹,

Jaber²,

Almasalmeh³

et al. 2014

JSEA

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“…For Example, Research In The United Kingdom Found That Web-Based Programming Skills Were Of High Importance [7], Research With North Dakota State University's Employer Contacts Revealed The Need For Students To Do More Realistic Projects Before They Graduated [8], Research In Australia Highlighted The Need For More Business-Related Knowledge [9]. The Mismatch Between Identified Skills And University Curricula Has Aided In Identifying Opportunities For Improving Curricula By Creating, Expanding Or Reordering Courses [9,10].…”

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A Survey of Employers’ Needs for Technical and Soft Skills Among New Graduates

Scaffidi¹

2018

IJCSEIT

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Motivated by concern about the ability of graduates to succeed in the workforce, universities frequently conduct surveys of local and regional employers, to understand those companies' expectations. These can uncover specific needs not being addressed. Following a similar line of inquiry, prior research at Oregon State University interviewed employers, with the aim of identifying skills of concern. The current paper takes this research another step further by presenting a survey-based study aimed at quantifying the prevalence and level of employers' desire for workers who have these identified skills. Although all skills were rated as moderately useful or better, most soft skills scored higher than most technical skills. Nonetheless, three technical skills (source code versioning, testing and agile methods) scored approximately as well as the soft skills; these three technical skills, like soft skills, were cross-cutting and applicable to more than one software development context. Further survey questions revealed that employers preferred that, to the extent that students focus on building technical skill, these learning experiences ideally should involve creating software that students can use as evidence of their qualifications.

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“…The web-based educational gaming environment is called Pex4Fun. An analysis on the software engineering (SE) curricula of 13 Jordanian universities is made to compare with the software engineering knowledge areas [7]. It was found that many knowledge areas are not covered by the SE curricula.…”

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Induction of Interactive Methods to Teach Software Engineering Course

Alahmadi¹,

Qureshi²

2015

IJMECS

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Software engineering (SE) field is considered as a backbone of software industry. Students suffer many problems and difficulties when they approach to industry due to the old contents of SE course, lack of practice and inability in the subject area. The main reason of the SE course problems is the lack of coordination or gap between software industry and academia. This paper proposed a novel solution to enhance SE curriculum to bridge the gap between industry and academia. The proposed solution will assist students at optimal level in their professional careers to achieve goals of SE course. Survey research methodology is used to evaluate the proposed solution and the results of data analysis are highly encouraging. It is anticipated that the universities will find this research helpful to improve the quality of SE course.

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Enhancing the software engineering curriculums: A case study of the Jordanian Universities

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Reducing the Gap between Software Engineering Curricula and Software Industry in Jordan

Reducing the Gap between Software Engineering Curricula and Software Industry in Jordan

A Survey of Employers’ Needs for Technical and Soft Skills Among New Graduates

Induction of Interactive Methods to Teach Software Engineering Course

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