Fostering Friendships - Enhancing Social Bonds in the Classroom
Agile Project-Based Teaching and Learning
1. WORLDCOMP 2013
Agile Project-Based
Teaching and Learning
Dagmar Monett
Talk at the 11th International Conference on
Software Engineering Research and Practice, SERP 2013
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 22-25, 2013
2. How do students learn best?
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3. D. Monett
Las Vegas, Nevada, was created 2013
The paper’s word cloud USA, July 22-25,with Tagxedo
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5. Module: Project Management (14 ECTS-credits)
Sub-modules at the BSEL:
- Project and Quality Management (20%)
- Multidisciplinary Lab using Agile techniques
(30%)
Sub-module at the enterprises/companies:
- Practice Transfer (50%)
(ECTS: European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System,
1 credit point = 30 hours of study)
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6. Multidisciplinary Lab using Agile
Agile Project-based Learning
Interdisciplinary approach
- Agile Metaheuristics TSP
Agile in general, XP in particular
44 Semester Credit Hours (1 SCH = 45 Min. of
teaching time)
Block course (4 blocks)
Coaching sections
Agile project development in the Lab (theo + pract)
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24. Course/Teaching evaluation
Anonymous questionnaire independent of formal
faculty evaluations
Questions (16) catalogue with descriptive scale
values
Four major topics:
- course and project requirements
- teaching and coaching
- how students learned
- Agile techniques
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25. Ex. topic: Agile techniques
Descriptive values available:
very much
very helpful
excessive
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normal
normal
adequate
very little
irritating
insufficient
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abstention
abstention
abstention
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27. Averages (4 editions, N=103)
time/requirements: normal/realistic
TSP & ACO:
motivating
quality/
productivity:
improved
very much
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motivating
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28. Averages (SS2011 vs. SS2012)
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12
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29. Few students still “behind”…
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