DocumentCode :
239725
Title :
An evaluation of teaching theoretical graduate engineering courses adapting different techniques
Author :
Bharadwaj, A. Keshav
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Sci., Atria Inst. of Technol., Bangalore, India
fYear :
2014
fDate :
19-20 Dec. 2014
Firstpage :
84
Lastpage :
88
Abstract :
Graduate programs in engineering have theoretical courses like Software Engineering, Information Systems, Advanced Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Management and Entrepreneurship as part of the curriculum. These courses are challenging from both the students´ and the instructors´ points of view. From student feedback it has been seen that they view these subjects uninteresting due to a lack of practical component. The instructor´s responsibility increases in making such theoretical subjects interesting for the students. These courses impart certain unique skills which the students need to apply in their professional careers. But the Lecture method which is still the most practiced and preferred one does not provide for active student involvement. To combat this problem a variety of teaching modes have been developed from different learning theories. Several of these techniques are in use in Post-graduate courses and corporate training courses where the number of participants is less. The author has tried some of these techniques like story-telling or case study approach, involved assignment and group correction, reverse knowledge transfer, i.e. teaching by students, etc. while teaching Information Systems for two sections of undergraduate students and has found reasonable success. This paper describes the techniques used by the author, the methodology, the implementation and the results thereof. Attempt has been made using quizzes/tests to draw conclusions about the viability and applicability of these innovative techniques in classes where the number of students is more than fifty.
Keywords :
computer science education; further education; software architecture; software engineering; teaching; active student involvement; advanced software engineering; corporate training courses; entrepreneurship; graduate programs; group correction; information system teaching; instructor responsibility; lecture method; post-graduate courses; professional careers; reverse knowledge transfer; software architecture; storytelling; theoretical graduate engineering course teaching evaluation; undergraduate students; Business; Conferences; Educational institutions; Information systems; Software engineering; Training; Software engineering; education techniques; graduate studies; learning styles;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
MOOC, Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Patiala
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/MITE.2014.7020246
Filename :
7020246
Link To Document :
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