Abstract:Software Engineering is a pivot course in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering curriculums. This paper briefly presents traditional content which is usually being taught in many Software Engineering courses, and highlights some problems encountered during teaching this content. Then it builds on those problems to suggest a more appropriate content for the course. The suggested content is applied in nature to make the course interesting to students, pushes programming to the very beginning of the cours… Show more
“…Shata [10] proposed an approach to teaching SE course based on experience in adopting an applied-oriented manner. The paper focused on the most commonly used models, which students might encounter in their future carriers.…”
The use of software is an essential part of our modern lives. Hence, this increases the importance of studying Software Engineering (SE) course. In general, the software engineering graduates usually lack the necessary skills, expertise, abilities, and sufficient knowledge when beginning their careers in the software industry. Due to that, a majority of students find it difficult to find relevant jobs. This paper proposes novel methods to teach SE course to improve the teaching and enhance knowledge and skills of students. It is proposed to include: identifying the course learning objectives (CLOs) and the required skills of the SE course, combining cooperative learning and mastery learning strategies to teaching software engineering, using social media to teach SE course, and establish the OSES in an educational institution. The goal of this paper is to improve the quality of SE teaching and facilitate students learning to prepare them for their future careers. Qualitative technique is used as a research design to evaluate the proposed solution. The results indicate that this proposal is supported by the majority of professionals working in the academia and industry.
IndexTerms-Software engineering, education, cooperative mastery, social media, industry experts, methods of teaching.The Proposed Methods to Improve Teaching of Software Engineering
“…Shata [10] proposed an approach to teaching SE course based on experience in adopting an applied-oriented manner. The paper focused on the most commonly used models, which students might encounter in their future carriers.…”
The use of software is an essential part of our modern lives. Hence, this increases the importance of studying Software Engineering (SE) course. In general, the software engineering graduates usually lack the necessary skills, expertise, abilities, and sufficient knowledge when beginning their careers in the software industry. Due to that, a majority of students find it difficult to find relevant jobs. This paper proposes novel methods to teach SE course to improve the teaching and enhance knowledge and skills of students. It is proposed to include: identifying the course learning objectives (CLOs) and the required skills of the SE course, combining cooperative learning and mastery learning strategies to teaching software engineering, using social media to teach SE course, and establish the OSES in an educational institution. The goal of this paper is to improve the quality of SE teaching and facilitate students learning to prepare them for their future careers. Qualitative technique is used as a research design to evaluate the proposed solution. The results indicate that this proposal is supported by the majority of professionals working in the academia and industry.
IndexTerms-Software engineering, education, cooperative mastery, social media, industry experts, methods of teaching.The Proposed Methods to Improve Teaching of Software Engineering
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.