Walking through the Method Zoo: Does Higher Education really meet Software Industry Demands?SEET
Software engineering educators are continually challenged by rapidly evolving concepts, technologies, and industry demands. Due to the omnipresence of software in a digitalized society, higher education institutions (HEIs) have to educate the students such that they learn how to learn, and that they are equipped with a profound basic knowledge and with latest knowledge about modern software and system development. Since industry demands are constantly change, HEIs are challenged in meeting such current and future demands in a timely manner. This paper aims at analyzing the current state of practice in software engineering education. Specifically, we want to compare contemporary education with industrial practice to build an understanding if frameworks, methods and practices for software and system development taught at HEIs reflect industrial practice. For this, we conducted an online survey and collected information about 67 software engineering courses. Our findings show that development approaches taught at HEIs quite closely reflect industrial practice. We also found that process knowledge is often provided as a by-product in project courses and thus conclude that it could be beneficial to put more emphasis on teaching such development approaches.
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11:00 - 12:30: Industry-Relevant TeachingSoftware Engineering Education and Training / Posters at St-Paul / Ste-Catherine Chair(s): Ita RichardsonLero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick | |||
11:00 - 11:15 Talk | Walking through the Method Zoo: Does Higher Education really meet Software Industry Demands?SEET Software Engineering Education and Training Marco KuhrmannUniversity of Passau, Joyce Nakatumba-NabendeMakerere University, Rolf-Helge SchneiderCopenhagen Business School, Paolo TellIT University of Copenhagen, Jil KlünderLeibniz Universität Hannover, Tayana ConteUniversidade Federal do Amazonas, Stephen MacDonellAuckland University of Technology, Regina HebigChalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg | ||
11:15 - 11:21 Poster | Incorporating Real Projects into a Software Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Posters Rafael ChaninPUCRS, Jorge MelegatiFree University of Bozen-Bolzano, Afonso SalesPUCRS, Mariana Detoni, Xiaofeng WangFree University of Bozen-Bolzano, Rafael PrikladnickiSchool of Technology at PUCRS University | ||
11:21 - 11:36 Talk | Collaborating with Industrial Customers in a Capstone Project Course: The Customers’ PerspectiveSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Maria PaasivaaraIT University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Aalto University, Finland, Jari VanhanenAalto University, Casper LasseniusAalto University, Finland and Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway | ||
11:36 - 11:46 Talk | Industry-Academy Collaboration in Teaching DevOps and Continuous Delivery to Software Engineering Students: Towards Improved Industrial Relevance in Higher EducationSEET Software Engineering Education and Training | ||
11:46 - 12:01 Talk | Facilitating Entrepreneurial Experiences through a Software Engineering Project CourseSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Håkan BurdenViktoria Swedish ICT, Jan-Philipp SteghöferChalmers | University of Gothenburg, Oskar Hagvall SvenssonChalmers University of Technology Pre-print | ||
12:01 - 12:30 Talk | Author Panel DiscussionSEET Software Engineering Education and Training |