Did our course design on software architecture meet our student’s learning expectations?

This Innovative Practice Full Paper discusses our course design on software architecture to meet the learning expectations of two groups of software engineers. Software engineers with working experiences frequently find themselves the need to upskill in their lifelong learning journey. Their learnin...

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Main Authors: OUH, Eng Lieh, GAN, Benjamin, IRAWAN, Yunghans
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-65292021-01-07T14:43:25Z Did our course design on software architecture meet our student’s learning expectations? OUH, Eng Lieh GAN, Benjamin IRAWAN, Yunghans This Innovative Practice Full Paper discusses our course design on software architecture to meet the learning expectations of two groups of software engineers. Software engineers with working experiences frequently find themselves the need to upskill in their lifelong learning journey. Their learning expectations are shaped not just by their need to know but also other learning characteristics such as their working experiences. In many cases, we design courses based on the required learning outcomes and assessment criteria. In this paper, we wish to find out whether our course design on software architecture has met the learning expectations of our students over eight years. Our study data involves two groups of software engineers to upskill in two courses (1) software engineering practitioners taking a public software architecture design course (2) postgraduate students taking a Master’s level software engineering programme. We explain how we evolve the course design based on their students’ feedback after each run of the courses. Although the feedback of each run show encouraging results, we discover gaps in our design when we cumulatively analyze the trends of their learning expectations with their qualitative comments over the years. Our design is able to consistently meet some but not all the learning expectations that recur over the years and we discuss the reasons for this outcome and potential further interventions. We hope this discussion and trend analysis process can help course designers to improve their course design 2020-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5526 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6529/viewcontent/Did_our_Course_Design.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Software engineering Learning expectations Software architecture Adult learner Databases and Information Systems Software Engineering
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topic Software engineering
Learning expectations
Software architecture
Adult learner
Databases and Information Systems
Software Engineering
spellingShingle Software engineering
Learning expectations
Software architecture
Adult learner
Databases and Information Systems
Software Engineering
OUH, Eng Lieh
GAN, Benjamin
IRAWAN, Yunghans
Did our course design on software architecture meet our student’s learning expectations?
description This Innovative Practice Full Paper discusses our course design on software architecture to meet the learning expectations of two groups of software engineers. Software engineers with working experiences frequently find themselves the need to upskill in their lifelong learning journey. Their learning expectations are shaped not just by their need to know but also other learning characteristics such as their working experiences. In many cases, we design courses based on the required learning outcomes and assessment criteria. In this paper, we wish to find out whether our course design on software architecture has met the learning expectations of our students over eight years. Our study data involves two groups of software engineers to upskill in two courses (1) software engineering practitioners taking a public software architecture design course (2) postgraduate students taking a Master’s level software engineering programme. We explain how we evolve the course design based on their students’ feedback after each run of the courses. Although the feedback of each run show encouraging results, we discover gaps in our design when we cumulatively analyze the trends of their learning expectations with their qualitative comments over the years. Our design is able to consistently meet some but not all the learning expectations that recur over the years and we discuss the reasons for this outcome and potential further interventions. We hope this discussion and trend analysis process can help course designers to improve their course design
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author OUH, Eng Lieh
GAN, Benjamin
IRAWAN, Yunghans
author_facet OUH, Eng Lieh
GAN, Benjamin
IRAWAN, Yunghans
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title Did our course design on software architecture meet our student’s learning expectations?
title_short Did our course design on software architecture meet our student’s learning expectations?
title_full Did our course design on software architecture meet our student’s learning expectations?
title_fullStr Did our course design on software architecture meet our student’s learning expectations?
title_full_unstemmed Did our course design on software architecture meet our student’s learning expectations?
title_sort did our course design on software architecture meet our student’s learning expectations?
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2020
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5526
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6529/viewcontent/Did_our_Course_Design.pdf
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