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- Clear, Tony, et al.
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Challenges and recommendations for the design and conduct of global software engineering courses : A systematic review
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings of The 2015 Iticse Conference on Working Group Reports (Iticse-Wgp'15). - New York : ACM Press. - 9781450341462 ; , s. 1-39
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Context: Global Software Engineering (GSE) has become the predominant form of software development for global companies and has given rise to a demand for students trained in GSE. In response, universities are developing courses and curricula around GSE and researchers have begun to disseminate studies of these new approaches.Problem: GSE differs from most other computer science fields, however, in that practice is inseparable from theory. As a result, educators looking to create GSE courses face a daunting task: integrating global practice into the local classroom.Aim: This study aims to ameliorate the very difficult task of teaching GSE by delineating the challenges and providing some recommendations for overcoming them.Method: To meet our aims we pose two research questions ("When teaching GSE to students in Higher Education, what are the (a) challenges, and (b) recommendations for addressing them") and then conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) to determine the answers to these questions. Our SLR follows a carefully designed and validated protocol.Results: We found 82 papers that addressed our research questions. Our findings indicate that in addition to the challenges posed by GSE in general, particular problems arise in educational situations. The majority of these challenges fall into the "global distance" category, though teamwork challenges and people issues (such as trust) also commonly arise. Organizational differences between institutions, differing skill sets between students in different locations, and varying cultural work norms, for example, all operate within educational settings in quite different ways than in professional development teams. Integrating cultural training, conducting teamwork exercises to build trust, and instructor monitoring of team communication are all examples of techniques that have been used successfully by educators according to our review.Conclusion: Despite the severity of the challenges in GSE education, many institutions have successfully developed courses and curricula targeting GSE. Indeed, for each of the challenges we have identified in the literature there are numerous recommendations for overcoming them. Instructors can use the recommendations given in this study as a starting point to running successful GSE courses.
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- Clear, Tony, et al.
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A framework for writing learning agreements
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proc. 46th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press. - 9781509017904
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Active learning is a popular concept for motivating learning. Learning agreements are one strategy towards this goal. They can be used to aid the students to take ownership of their learning and in becoming more active in a course. Learning Agreements are especially useful tools for scaffolding learning in courses with a focus on developing the professional competencies of students, such as in Open Ended Group Projects, Work Integrated Learning or other authentic learning contexts. Such educational contexts are complex and we have found it necessary to scaffold student learning using agreements based on professional competencies. This has led to a pedagogical framework, which has found successful application in a number of contexts. This framework has been built based on discussions with students, and has involved the development of a supporting wiki which contains descriptions of the different professional competencies involved in the learning agreement. The IT based framework has been iteratively developed together with the students taking the course in the fall of 2015. The development and assessment of this framework is contrasted in the context of two courses using learning agreements, one (in Sweden) with a focus on development of professional competencies and the other (in New Zealand) addressing a mix of professional competencies and subject knowledge in a work integrated learning setting.
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- Daniels, Mats, et al.
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Collaborative technologies in global engineering : New competencies and challenges
- 2015
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Ingår i: International journal of engineering education. - 0949-149X. ; 31:1, s. 267-281
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Educational institutions face many challenges in closing the gap between what is currently offered through academic engineering curricula and what is expected by society in general and industry in particular. There are many aspects to these challenges and here we address needs that are specific to global professionals by investigating the knowledge, skills and abilities needed for mediating and using Collaborative Technologies (CT) in an Open Ended Group Project (OEGP) within a global setting. We discuss these needs as framed by relevant theoretical frameworks for collaboration and learning (including Collaborative knowledge building and Collaborative Technology Fit), mapped using empirical data from a course setting involving global collaboration between two universities (one in the United States and one in Sweden). The paper concludes with a commentary on competencies beyond discipline specific technical skills and presents recommendations, based upon this research, for developing students’ proficiency in both mediating and using CTs in OEGP courses. These recommendations are followed by an outline of key areas for future research.
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- Daniels, Mats, et al.
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Competencies for paradigm shift "survival"
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proc. 45th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press. - 9781479984534 ; , s. 1424-1429
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- Isomöttönen, Ville, et al.
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Searching for global employability : Can students capitalize on enabling learning environments?
- 2019
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Ingår i: ACM Transactions on Computing Education. - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 1946-6226. ; 19:2, s. 11:1-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Literature on global employability signifies “enabling” learning environments where students encounter ill-formed and open-ended problems and are required to adapt and be creative. Varying forms of “projects,” co-located and distributed, have populated computing curricula for decades and are generally deemed an answer to this call. We performed a qualitative study to describe how project course students are able to capitalize on the promise of enabling learning environments. This critical perspective was motivated by the circumstance of the present-day education systems being heavily regulated for the precipitated production of human capital. The students involved in our study described education system-imposed and group-imposed narratives of narrowed opportunities, as well as many self-related challenges. However, students welcomed autonomy as an enjoyable condition and linked it with motivation. Whole-group commitment and self-related attributes such as taking care of one’s own learning appeared as important conditions. The results highlight targets for interventions that can counteract constraining study conditions and continue the march of projects as a means to foster complex learning for the benefit of students and professionalism in global software engineering.
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- Jónsson, Björn Þór, et al.
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Aligning quality assurance at the course unit and educational program levels
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proc. 46th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press. - 9781509017904
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Quality assurance is a subject that has grown dramatically in importance in recent times. In previous work, we have described how the ACM Curricula can be used to support the Quality Assurance process of educational programs, using the Computer Science program at Reykjavik University as an example. Faculty members and employers of graduates participated in the process, that resulted in providing both detailed quantitative data and qualitative information. The assessment also raised awareness of how abstract topics and learning outcomes from an international standard can be used when revising the curricula of a particular course in a CS program. Quality assurance is indeed a continuous process, where the results of evaluations should be used to drive improvements. In this paper we focus on how a Database course was re-structured based on a recent quality assurance process.
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- Lind, Thomas, et al.
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Students envisioning the future
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proc. 46th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press. - 9781509017904
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- How can students be included as critical stakeholders in the systems and services provided by a university? To address the whole student experience, we engaged students and employees at a large Swedish university in a vision seminar process to elicit how these groups envisioned an ideal future university, and the necessary changes to technology and organisational structures required to achieve this ideal version. The process entailed six four-hour workshops with four groups consisting of six participants each. A survey instrument was used to follow up on the participants' experiences of participating in the vision seminar process and their thoughts on the future of the university. The results show that the participating students were more positive compared to the university employees. The students envisioned harmonized interdepartmental systems, seamlessly integrating a variety of services into one university provided solution. The employees envisioned their future work as flexible, enabled by technology providing excellent support without hindering pedagogical and organisational development. Using technological frames, these visions of the future are identified, analysed and discussed in relation to the quality of university education and a holistic view on students' university experience. Finally we discuss the broader implications of the visions on the future of university education.
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