Paper Info
Title
Investigating how features of online learning support software process education.
Abstract
Online courses are a method of lecturing whose application in education is not bounded by space and location constraints. They include features such as video lectures and online questionnaires. There are a few online courses to teach subjects related to Software Engineering. However, for the best of our knowledge, there is no online course to teach software process, which is a key area of Software Engineering. More important, there is no systematic study to investigate whether this way of teaching is efficient and viable to teach software process. This paper presents an empirical study to evaluate whether and how online features support the learning of software process in the light of an online Software Engineering course with 61 video lectures, 16 online questionnaires, and a discussion forum. This study relies on data of 100 undergraduate students over three consecutive years: 2014, 2015, and 2016. Data of this study suggest that students answer online questionnaires in order to review for face-to-face exams. Our results also show that videos and online questionnaires contribute to the improvement of up to 15% of student grades in software process questions when compared with students who neither watch videos nor answer online questionnaires. However, based on two exam questions that repeated over the three years, we verify that the grade improvement seems to be mostly related to video lectures watched, rather than to online questionnaires answered.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
Frontiers in Education Conference
online education,software process,software engineering,empirical study
Field
DocType
ISSN
Personal software process,Computer science,Software peer review,Knowledge management,Agile software development,Computer-assisted web interviewing,Software,Software development process,Mathematics education,Software walkthrough,Online research methods,Multimedia
Conference
0190-5848
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eduardo Fernandes1262.03
Johnatan Oliveira2230.98
Eduardo Figueiredo319521.12