Virtual Teams and Employability in Global Software Engineering Education

Bass, Julian M.; McDermott, Roger; Lalchandani, Jayprakash

doi:10.1109/icgse.2015.21

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“…(e.g.,Bass, McDermott, and Lalchandani 2015;Goggins 2012). Portfolios, reflective logs and blogs were similarly found to be helpful in the development of skills in communication, action-planning and self-awareness (Marques 2016).…”

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Developing employability in engineering education: a systematic review of the literature

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Bramhall

Greenfield

et al. 2018

European Journal of Engineering Education

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Traditional engineering education is usually very theoretical and in a closed environment. By using the Learning Methodology + Service (L+S) and various techniques and Agile methods, performed from the beginning of the life cycle of a project, the incorporation of a different form of COMPUTER SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE Forshaw et al 2016 Meeting graduate employability needs through open-source collaboration with 1 This paper describes the development and delivery of a course, in close collaboration with industry, over a ten-year period. We describe the details of this collaboration, which aims to equip students with collaborative software development experience, incorporating open source, Categories

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Developing employability in engineering education: a systematic review of the literature

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Greenfield

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European Journal of Engineering Education

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“…Furthermore, research by [29] suggests that the combination of these courses with more active approaches is effective in strengthening the students' understanding of the theoretical concepts learned in undergraduate classrooms. Moreover, several studies have provided evidence on the use of approaches such as "learning-by-doing" [14], problem-based learning [6,39], project-based learning [20,22], serious games [21,33,44], simulations [25,26], and e-learning [12], with the aim of improving GSD education. All of these pedagogical approaches use constructivism as the main learning theory.…”

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Cadxela: An educational tool for supporting the global software engineering education at undergraduate level

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Pacheco

León

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The Global Software Development (GSD) strategy has introduced many benefits into the modern software industry, but it has also created many risks that can negatively affect the quality of the final product. Moreover, this approach is still in constant evolution and, therefore, diverse issues and challenges related to geographical, temporal, and sociocultural distances are also present. Therefore, many universities around the world are increasing their efforts in creating programs to prepare more skilled graduates to work in globally distributed environments. However, providing GSD courses among universities distributed in different locations is not so profitable and normally involves a high number of collaborations among various teachers and students that traditional teaching approaches cannot support. In this study, the Cadxela tool is presented to enable undergraduate students to acquire practical experience in GSD and improve their communication and teamwork skills. An empirical evaluation was conducted on Cadxela involving students and teachers from five universities in Mexico, Spain, Chile, Cuba, and Peru. The participants developed a total of 15 projects to experience different problems related to geographical, temporal, and sociocultural distances. The obtained results from pre and post‐evaluations showed that Cadxela can contribute to facilitating the development of practical projects on GSD undergraduate courses, while students develop their knowledge, social skills associated with this topic as well as teamwork and communication skills. Finally, the data collected on the teachers' perceptions suggested that Cadxela can also be a useful tool for introducing the GSD approach at the undergraduate level.

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“…Seeing these areas in connection, there is a potential for the university to address all of them through suitably designed student projects in agile development. Such projects can deliberately incorporate challenges and learning objectives related to crossdisciplinary [36] and/or global [37] teamwork, preferably with an external client to provide authenticity. On the other hand -all of this is already covered in existing project courses, which indicates that the university is already providing the right type of learning but might consider improving it and/or providing more of it.…”

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From Employable to Fully Operational: The Need for Training of Computer Science Graduates

Lundberg

Krogstie

2021

Int. J. Eng. Ped.

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For graduates in computer science and informatics to get employment as IT professionals, there is a need for their education to provide the competence sought after by employers being aligned with the discipline. To become fully operational in the organization, the candidates typically also need to further develop their competence there, engaging in activities, and becoming familiar with the practices in the company. For a university offering master’s degrees in computer science and informatics, it is important to know the employers’ view of the relevance of the study programs and what is possibly considered to be lacking. Also, it is essential to know whether the missing part needed to become fully operational should be provided by the university. In this paper, we investigate these questions by asking employers of master students in IT. We use the framework of modes of identification by Wenger-Trayner and Wenger-Trayner to find out if the graduates are aligned with the discipline, engaged in activities, and able to imagine their future in an IT-position. A combination of in-depth interviews and a survey is used. Analysis of the findings shows that employers overall find the candidates’ competence from the university to be adequate. We argue that collaboration between university and industry is essential to this success, pointing to a set of key steps in the process from entering a study program to becoming fully operational in work life.

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Virtual Teams and Employability in Global Software Engineering Education

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

Developing employability in engineering education: a systematic review of the literature

Developing employability in engineering education: a systematic review of the literature

Cadxela: An educational tool for supporting the global software engineering education at undergraduate level

From Employable to Fully Operational: The Need for Training of Computer Science Graduates

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