Title:
An
Innovative Lab-Based Approach toward Teaching Software
Engineering Course to Information Systems Students
Abstract: This
paper describes an innovative teaching project that was
developed and implemented by accommodating knowledge and practices that
are
applicable to most projects in the area of project management and in
the area
of software development to Information Systems (IS) students. This
approach is
relevant to IS model curricula and is in accordance with IS2002.10
project
management and practice course guidelines.
The rationale behind this approach is to overcome the relative
lack of
experience of IS students in many aspects of project management and
software
development by introducing to them how to plan, organize, and control
software
development projects, and to help students strengthen good software
engineering
practices prior to entering IT industry and become more efficient. We
present
results of a case study based on a survey conducted to IS Software
Engineering
(SE) course. Survey results show that including topics on project
management
and SE best practices lab into an IS SE course helped students (a) deal
with
non-technical issues of software projects, (b) develop their ability to
communicate clearly with team members, and (c) overcome their lack of
experience in many aspects of project management and software
development.
Author: Abdallah
Tubaishat