Title :
Opportunities and challenges in using competencies during design and delivery of software engineering curriculum
Author :
Shankararaman, Venky ; Ducrot, Joelle
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Syst., Singapore Manage. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
This position paper proposes a framework for leveraging course competencies to effectively deliver and assess course content, and give valuable, timely feedback to students. The framework addresses the following five phases of a course, namely, content design, assessment design, content delivery and assessment, assessment feedback, and content review. The paper then presents the benefits of this approach and challenges in implementing this framework in scalable manner and suggests some solutions to overcome these challenges.
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; software engineering; assessment design; assessment feedback; content delivery; content design; course content review; leveraging course competencies; software engineering curriculum; Conferences; Educational institutions; Engineering education; Information systems; Software; Software engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2014 IEEE 27th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Klagenfurt
DOI :
10.1109/CSEET.2014.6816799