Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elise Deitrick, Codio; Maura Lyons, Codio; Joshua Richard Coughlin Stowell Ball, Codio

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division (SWED)

beforemeeting as a class, and during class time, readings are discussed and more practices arecompleted [12]. Peer instruction has been shown to be effective in upper and lower level courses,improving student achievement, satisfaction, and self-efficacy. Peer instruction even improvesretention rates in introductory level programming courses. Peer instruction is effective formultiple reasons. Firstly, the questions that replace lecturing are specifically designed to fosterinteraction with course content. Secondly, students make use of classroom time to practice andask their peers questions, actively engaging with material as opposed to passively listening tolectures.Pair programming is the practice of two programmers sitting side-by-side on one computer

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Jeffrey Jonathan Yackley, University of Michigan, Flint

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division (SWED)

delivery and online delivery of the courses. Usingactive learning techniques, the authors sought to improve the students’ levels of engagementwhile teaching how to design, implement, and test 2D and 3D video games. The students learn touse agile software engineering practices, most notably Scrum and Kanban, to deliver incrementalgame prototypes in each course whereas the focus of the second course is a term-long roleplaywhere students play the roles of developer-owners of a failing game company. In-person andonline students were surveyed to measure their perceived levels of engagement with courseactivities. Using these assessments the authors demonstrate that it is possible to move an in-person active learning course to online delivery without