Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nan Niu, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Kui Xie, Mississippi State University; Chris Smith, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

, “Component Reuse in Software Engineering”19, which couldbe accessed online, was optional. We relied on a series of research papers as the core readingsfor the course, which provided us with a better overview of recent research in software reuse.Our reuse course was designed to be a seminar course, not a pure lecturing course, at the outset.The active learning and cooperative learning strategies were implemented as follows.¾ ORIENTATION AND MOTIVATIONThe students could be active learners only if they were motivated and found the subject matterinteresting and challenging. The first two classes of the semester were thus devoted to motivatingthe students. In particular, the importance of software reuse was emphasized. In addition to thecommonly cited