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Lectures abandoned: active learning by active seminars

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Henrik Bærbak Christensen,

Aino CorryAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 16 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1145/2325296.2325304

Published: 03 July 2012 Publication History

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Traditional lecture-based courses are widely criticized for being less effective in teaching. The question is of course what should replace the lectures and various active learning techniques have been suggested and studied. In this paper, we report on our experiences of redesigning a software engineering course in software architecture to employ a range of active learning techniques. The course was constrained by the study administration's traditional assignment of a three hour lecturing slot and as such we had to make techniques that fitted this imposed constraint. Our contribution is active seminars as a replacement of traditional lectures, an activity template for the contents of active seminars, an account on how storytelling supported the seminars, as well as reports on our and the students' experiences.

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Rupakheti CChenoweth SBertolino ACanfora GElbaum S(2015)Teaching software architecture to undergraduate studentsProceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 210.5555/2819009.2819079(445-454)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2819009.2819079
Rupakheti CChenoweth S(2015)Teaching Software Architecture to Undergraduate Students: An Experience Report2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering10.1109/ICSE.2015.177(445-454)Online publication date: May-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2015.177
Köppe Cvan Heesch UKohls C(2013)Towards a pattern language for lecture designProceedings of the 18th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Program10.1145/2739011.2739014(1-17)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2739011.2739014

Index Terms

Lectures abandoned: active learning by active seminars
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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ITiCSE '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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DOI:10.1145/2325296

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Rupakheti CChenoweth SBertolino ACanfora GElbaum S(2015)Teaching software architecture to undergraduate studentsProceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 210.5555/2819009.2819079(445-454)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2819009.2819079
Rupakheti CChenoweth S(2015)Teaching Software Architecture to Undergraduate Students: An Experience Report2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering10.1109/ICSE.2015.177(445-454)Online publication date: May-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2015.177
Köppe Cvan Heesch UKohls C(2013)Towards a pattern language for lecture designProceedings of the 18th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Program10.1145/2739011.2739014(1-17)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2739011.2739014

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