Towards a better capstone experience

Mohan, Sriram; Chenoweth, Stephen F.; Bohner, Shawn A.

doi:10.1145/2157136.2157173

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“…In six articles, above-mentioned EL types occurred in combination: (1) industry/community research project and role-play (Robinson and Hall, 2018), ( 2) flipped classroom, applied research project, guest speakers, and field project (Péraire, 2019), (3) industry/community research project and interactive workshops (Kang et al, 2021), ( 4) applied research project, industry/community research project, and design hackathon (Hardy et al, 2018), ( 5) applied research project and industry/community research project (Mohan et al, 2012), and ( 6) internships, guest speakers, and interactive workshop (Girouard and Kang, 2021).…”

Section: Combined Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Experiential Learning to Teach User Experience in Higher Education in Past 20 Years: A Scoping Review

Kang

Roestel

Girouard

2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Experiential learning is an effective method to teach User Experience (UX) to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) students. Despite its popularity, there seems to be no comprehensive overview on (1) the current use of experiential learning in UX education at universities and (2) student learning outcomes and benefits resulting from the use of experiential learning. Hence, we conducted a scoping review to provide such overview. We analyzed 45 articles published from 2000 to 2021 and we found 12 types of experiential learning employed by HCI educators: applied research project, industry/community research project, hands-on activity, role-play, interactive workshops, guest speakers, in-house work placement, internship, flipped classroom, field project, lab, and design hackathon, from most to least frequent. Twenty-six articles reported student learning outcomes and benefits: (1) enhanced UX technical knowledge, (2) applied textbook knowledge into practice, (3) acquired soft skills, (4) student satisfaction, (5) increased awareness of user diversity, and (6) increased job marketability. Overall, we advance current HCI teaching practices by providing HCI educators with a list of experiential learning types that they can adopt in their classes to teach UX.

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Section: Combined Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Experiential Learning to Teach User Experience in Higher Education in Past 20 Years: A Scoping Review

Kang

Roestel

Girouard

2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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“…Some investigations are focused on metrics and strategies aligned with the application of project management abilities and software development methodologies such as Scrum, XP, or Kanban [4,5]. Although these proposals present fresh approaches in the same vein as our work, they lack a unified ecosystem for supporting project management activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Cloud-Based Mobile System to Improve Project Management Skills in Software Engineering Capstone Courses

Neyem

Diaz-Mosquera

Benedetto

2018

Mobile Information Systems

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Capstone project-based courses offer a favorable environment for the development of student skills through an approach incorporating theoretical and practical components. However, it is often difficult to successfully coordinate between students, stakeholders, and the academic team. e absence of suitable tools for addressing this issue, along with time constraints, often prevents students from attaining the expected course outcomes. is raises the question "How can we improve project management skills in computing majors through the use of technology-enhanced learning environments?" is paper presents a Cloud-based mobile system for supporting project management under a framework of best practices in software engineering capstone courses. e Kanban approach was used as a core of the proposed system. Kanban boards are very popular in the software industry today. It has been empirically shown that they provide increased motivation and project activity control due to their inherent simplicity. is helps the students and academic team be aware of the project context as it aids in preventing ambiguities, flaws, or uncertainties in the development of software artifacts.

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“…We consider students' comfort in a situation to be an amalgamation of feelings and former experiences. Our institution and others offer various courses that emphasize the use of practical skills such as an elective capstone and software engineering courses 9,25,31 , undergraduate research programs 21 , and course credit for participation in the programming competition team 17 . This course is designed to help prepare students for such courses and similar co-curricular activities.…”

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Incorporating Practical Computing Skills into a Supplemental CS2 Problem-solving Course

Ellis

Amelink

Edwards

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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where he has been teaching since 1996. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Caltech, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and information science from The Ohio State University. His research interests include computer science education, software testing, software engineering, and programming languages. He is the project lead for Web-CAT, the most widely used open-source automated grading system in the world. Web-CAT is known for allowing instructors to grade students based on how well they test their own code. In addition, his research group has produced a number of other open-source tools used in classrooms at many other institutions. Currently, he is researching innovative for giving feedback to students as they work on assignments to provide a more welcoming experience for students, recognizing the effort they put in and the accomplishments they make as they work on solutions, rather than simply looking at whether the student has finished what is required. The goals of his research are to strengthen growth mindset beliefs while encouraging deliberate practice, self-checking, and skill improvement as students work.

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Towards a better capstone experience

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Experiential Learning to Teach User Experience in Higher Education in Past 20 Years: A Scoping Review

Experiential Learning to Teach User Experience in Higher Education in Past 20 Years: A Scoping Review

A Cloud-Based Mobile System to Improve Project Management Skills in Software Engineering Capstone Courses

Incorporating Practical Computing Skills into a Supplemental CS2 Problem-solving Course

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