A Research Agenda for Identifying and Developing Required Competencies in Software Engineering

Authors

  • Yvonne Sedelmaier
  • Dieter Landes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v3i2.2448

Keywords:

Software engineering education, academic education, research agenda, grounded theory, didactics, subject didactic software engineering, teaching methodology, soft skills, competencies, research design, curriculum, lifelong learning,

Abstract


Various issues make learning and teaching software engineering a challenge for both students and instructors. Since there are no standard curricula and no cookbook recipes for successful software engineering, it is fairly hard to figure out which specific topics and competencies should be learned or acquired by a particular group of students. Furthermore, it is not clear which particular didactic approaches might work well for a specific topic and a particular group of students. This contribution presents a research agenda that aims at identifying relevant competencies and environmental constraints as well as their effect on learning and teaching software engineering. To that end, an experimental approach will be taken. As a distinctive feature, this approach iteratively introduces additional or modified didactical methods into existing courses and carefully evaluates their appropriateness. Thus, it continuously improves these methods.

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Published

2013-03-20

How to Cite

Sedelmaier, Y., & Landes, D. (2013). A Research Agenda for Identifying and Developing Required Competencies in Software Engineering. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 3(2), pp. 30–35. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v3i2.2448

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