Active and Inductive Learning in Software Engineering Education

If software engineering education is done in a traditional lecture-oriented style students have no other choice than believing that the solutions they are told actually work for a problem that they never encountered themselves. In order to overcome this problem, this paper describes an approach whic...

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Main Authors: Sedelmaier, Yvonne, Landes, Dieter
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
active learning
Capability maturity model
didactical approach
Education
higher education
inductive learning
Programming profession
Software
software engineering education
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Summary:If software engineering education is done in a traditional lecture-oriented style students have no other choice than believing that the solutions they are told actually work for a problem that they never encountered themselves. In order to overcome this problem, this paper describes an approach which allows students to better understand why software engineering and several of its core methods and techniques are needed, thus preparing them better for their professional life. This approach builds on active and inductive learning. Exercises that make students actively discover relevant software engineering issues are described in detail together with their pedagogical underpinning.
ISSN:0270-5257
1558-1225
DOI:10.1109/ICSE.2015.174