Aligning Industry Training and Incubators with Learning Outcomes in Software Engineering Capstone Courses

Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on New Trends in Teaching and Education

Year: 2022

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Aligning Industry Training and Incubators with Learning Outcomes in Software Engineering Capstone Courses

Orges Cico

ABSTRACT: 

While teaching a software engineering course, we noticed a lack of technical skills within the course setting. Based on this observation, we decided to redesign the course, shifting from  classical  classroom  lectures  to  a  capstone  project  approach  and  exploiting  student participation in industry training and information and communication technology incubators. We  conducted  semi-structured  interviews  and  relied  on  observations  and  exploratory  data gathered on student participation in training, incubation, and the course. In order to validate the  teaching  strategy,  we  developed  the  InnoTechSE  model,  where  students  migrate  from company training to an incubation centre while developing a capstone project in their capstone course.  As  a  result,  we  found  a  decrease  in  technical  challenges  when  industry  training  and incubation  naturally  align  with  the  learning  outcomes  of  the  capstone  course.  We  state  hypothesis  and  propose  future  recommendations  to  test  the  model  further  with  quantitative longitudinal studies.

keywords: Industry Training, Incubators, Innovative Model .