Title :
Agile model adaptation for e-learning students´ final-year project
Author :
Ashraf, Muhammad Adnan ; Shamail, Shafay ; Rana, Zeeshan A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virtual Univ. of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract :
The final-year project (FYP) is considered as an essential part of a Computer Science degree. FYP plays a key role in preparing the students to meet the industrial expectations. In e-learning scenario lack of coordination among students and limited student-supervisor interaction often leads to poor quality projects and inadequate learning. To enhance students´ skills and quality of the projects this paper suggests an Agile-Scrum model for the development phase of FYP. The effectiveness of the Agile-Scrum model on student project quality and e-learning has been compared with the in-practice Waterfall model at Virtual University of Pakistan (VU). The proposed model has increased students´ involvement, coordination and student-supervisor interaction in FYP.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer science education; software prototyping; user interfaces; Computer Science degree; VU; Virtual University of Pakistan; agile model adaptation; agile-scrum model; e-learning scenario; e-learning students final-year project; student-supervisor interaction; waterfall model; Computational modeling; Computer science; Educational institutions; Project management; Software; Software engineering; Agile programming; distance education; distributed software development; e-learning; final-year student project; senior project;
Conference_Titel :
Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2417-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2416-8
DOI :
10.1109/TALE.2012.6360375