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 Richardson Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick | ||
11:00 15mTalk | Walking through the Method Zoo: Does Higher Education really meet Software Industry Demands?SEET Software Engineering Education and Training Marco Kuhrmann University of Passau, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende Makerere University, Rolf-Helge Schneider Copenhagen Business School, Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, Jil Klünder Leibniz Universität Hannover, Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Stephen MacDonell Auckland University of Technology, Regina Hebig Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg | ||
11:15 6mPoster | Incorporating Real Projects into a Software Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Posters Rafael Chanin PUCRS, Jorge Melegati Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Afonso Sales PUCRS, Mariana Detoni , Xiaofeng Wang Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Rafael Prikladnicki School of Technology at PUCRS University | ||
11:21 15mTalk | Collaborating with Industrial Customers in a Capstone Project Course: The Customers’ PerspectiveSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Maria Paasivaara IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Aalto University, Finland, Jari Vanhanen Aalto University, Casper Lassenius Aalto University, Finland and Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway | ||
11:36 10mTalk | 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 15mTalk | Facilitating Entrepreneurial Experiences through a Software Engineering Project CourseSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Håkan Burden Viktoria Swedish ICT, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Oskar Hagvall Svensson Chalmers University of Technology Pre-print | ||
12:01 29mTalk | Author Panel DiscussionSEET Software Engineering Education and Training |