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Work in Progress: A Student Activity Dashboard for Ensuring Project-based Learning Compliance

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Conference

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Publication Date

June 26, 2016

Start Date

June 26, 2016

End Date

June 29, 2016

ISBN

978-0-692-68565-5

ISSN

2153-5965

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 3

Tagged Division

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

9

DOI

10.18260/p.27210

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/27210

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773

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Suhas Xavier Arizona State University

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Christian Murphy Arizona State University

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Kevin A Gary Arizona State University

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Dr. Gary is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. His interests are broad and deep in all areas of the professorate: research, teaching, and service. His research interests are in software engineering education, web & mobile applications (specifically mHealth), agile methods, and open source. He recently spent a year on sabbatical as the Chief Architect in the Sheik Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. He has participated in projects like the open source Image-guided Surgical Toolkit (igstk.org) and microrobots for NOTES (minimally-invasive) surgery. In teaching and scholarship, Dr. Gary has created the Software Enterprise, an experiential learning model which blends multiple methods of delivery into one pedagogical model. The Software Enterprise has received significant support and generated several publications, and forms the core project spine within the BS in Software Engineering at ASU. Dr. Gary is the former Associate Chair for Computing in the Department of Engineering, and remains active curricular design and implementation.

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Abstract

Project-based learning is an effective pedagogical tool for software engineering education. Students working in small teams may leverage an industry-practiced software process methodology to define, design, construct, and validate a quality software product. In a project-based environment, students learn both technical competencies in the face of a complex scalable problem, but also contextual knowledge of how process mechanisms help manage that complexity. However, teaching in a project-based environment presents several challenges. The focus of this paper is on the learning process that runs concurrently, and is co-dependent upon, a project’s software development lifecycle process. In this approach, student adherence to a set of learning activities in the conduct of a project is considered from a protocol compliance perspective, borrowing vocabulary from clinical domain. This WIP paper reports on the use of a web-based tool to encourage protocol compliance.

Xavier, S., & Murphy, C., & Gary, K. A. (2016, June), Work in Progress: A Student Activity Dashboard for Ensuring Project-based Learning Compliance Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.27210

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