Did our Course Design on Software Architecture meet our Student’s Learning Expectations?

Ouh, Eng Lieh; Gan, Benjamin Kok Siew; Irawan, Yunghans

doi:10.1109/fie44824.2020.9274014

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“…Designing a quality curriculum has been a controversial topic in recent years [1,2]. Researchers believe that with teaching fundamental skills to students, they can learn any new concept or technology when entering the industry [3].…”

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“…Software architecture supports communication with stakeholders when discussing the high-level structure of the software system under development [4]. Only developers with practical experience can understand and communicate each software design constraint [1]. Thus, software architecture and design courses are better taught through project-based learning to help students understand their abstract nature [9] and should not be limited to UML design [10].…”

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An Integrated Software Engineering Curriculum Through Project-Based Learning (PBL)

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering -Prairies. Her research focuses on developing mathematical techniques and software tools for automating the design of digital integrated circuits and education on developing to teach innovation and creativity in post-secondary education. She is an advocate for underrepresented groups in science and engineering and works on removing systemic barriers that exist in their advancement.

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An Integrated Software Engineering Curriculum Through Project-Based Learning (PBL)

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Marasco

et al.

2022 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Training software architects suiting software industry needs: A literature review

Pantoja Yépez,

Hurtado Alegría,

Bandi

et al. 2023

Educ Inf Technol

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The ability to define, evaluate, and implement software architectures is a fundamental skill for software engineers. However, teaching software architecture can be challenging as it requires students to be involved in real-context projects with high degrees of complexity. This involves making trade-off decisions among several quality attributes. Furthermore, the academic perception of software architecture differs from the industrial viewpoint. To address this issue, a study was conducted to identify and analyze the strategies, challenges, and course experiences used for teaching software architectures. The study analyzed 56 articles reporting on teaching experiences focused specifically on software architectures or focused on software engineering in general but discussing software architecture. The main contributions of this work include identifying strategies used in educating software architecture students aligned with the needs of the software industry. These strategies include short design projects, large development projects, and projects with actual clients. Additionally, the study compared curriculum contents in software development and architecture courses and identified recurring topics such as architecture patterns, quality attributes, and architectural views. This study also recognizes the set of skills that students of software architecture should develop during training, such as leadership and negotiation. The challenges in software architecture training were discussed, such as instructors’ lack of experience in actual projects, the abstract and fuzzy nature of software architectures, and the difficulty of involving clients and industry experts. Evaluation methods commonly used in training software architects, such as surveys, pre-test/post-test, and quality metrics on architectural artifacts, were identified and described. Overall, this study guides researchers and educators in improving their software architecture courses by incorporating strategies reported by the literature review. These strategies can bring architecture courses closer to the needs and conditions of the software industry.

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Data Modeling for Identification and Classification of Learning Outcomes in Flexible Educational Learning Units

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Chatuporn,

Rahong

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2023 27th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC)

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Did our Course Design on Software Architecture meet our Student’s Learning Expectations?

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

An Integrated Software Engineering Curriculum Through Project-Based Learning (PBL)

An Integrated Software Engineering Curriculum Through Project-Based Learning (PBL)

Training software architects suiting software industry needs: A literature review

Data Modeling for Identification and Classification of Learning Outcomes in Flexible Educational Learning Units

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