Dr Roger McDermott roger.mcdermott@rgu.ac.uk
Academic Strategic Lead
Dr Roger McDermott roger.mcdermott@rgu.ac.uk
Academic Strategic Lead
Julian Bass
JayPrakash Lalchandani
Software development has become increasingly globalized because of technological innovation, the evolution of work and business processes, as well as prevailing educational systems and national policies [1]. This paper addresses the challenges faced when creating realistic opportunities for students to participate in team working on a globally distributed software engineering project. We examine the experience of one set of students who undertook a single semester software development project, the technical objective of which was to create a product using online collaboration tools [2]. The students involved were studying at two widely-separated universities: Robert Gordon University (RGU), UK, and the International Institute for Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B), India. A classroom-based action research approach has been used to evolve and reflect on the project [3]. Detailed student feedback was canvassed using an open-ended questionnaire. The students report favourably on acquisition of employability, collaboration and professional skills. A number of challenges remain in areas of project management, the use of collaborative technology and of scaling the project to larger classes, while retaining a manageable supervision overhead.
MCDERMOTT, R., BASS, J. and LALCHANDANI, J.P. 2014. The learner experience of student-led international group project work in software engineering. In Proceedings of the 2014 Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2014): opening innovations and internationalization in engineering education, 22-25 October 2014, Madrid, Spain. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article number 7044181. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044181
Conference Name | 2014 Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2014) |
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Conference Location | Madrid, Spain |
Start Date | Oct 22, 2014 |
End Date | Oct 25, 2014 |
Acceptance Date | Oct 22, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 22, 2014 |
Publication Date | Feb 19, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Mar 14, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 14, 2017 |
Print ISSN | 0190-5848 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Article Number | 7044181 |
Series ISSN | 0190-5848 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044181 |
Keywords | International group project; Global software engineering; Collaborative technology; Employability; Student experience |
Public URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2221 |
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