Using a Computer-Supported Cooperative Problem Solving Environment to Teach Undergraduate Computer Science StudentsCooperative Skills and Requirements Elicitation

随着共享工作而不是单独工作的工作数量持续增加，我们正被迫重新审视人们的工作方式。这一建议表明，在当今的工作场所，计算机科学家必须既熟练掌握技术技能，又熟练掌握沟通技能。它还表明，作为教育工作者，我们必须准备好教我们的学生如何在提高程序员生产率的协作环境中工作。为此，我们建议使用现有的计算机支持的协作问题解决环境来教授计算机科学本科生引出软件需求。我们认为，需求启发和合作技能是高度相关的，因此，通过使用计算机支持的合作环境可以更有效地教授这些技能。通过这样做，我们将能够扩展我们的学生解决问题的技能，从而向计算机科学界释放更有效的程序员。这种环境将鼓励合作工作，但也为教师提供了监督个人和团队表现的能力。通过这个系统，学生将能够学习需求引出技术，同时在大型团队项目的合作方面获得宝贵的经验。

As the number of jobs in which shared rather than individual work continues to grow, we are being forced to re-examine the way people work. This proposal suggests that in today's work- place, computer scientists must be adept at both technical as well as communication skills. It also suggests that we, as educators, must be prepared to teach our students how to work in collaborative environments that improve programmer productivity. Towards this end, we propose to use an existing computer-supported cooperative problem solving environment to teach undergraduate computer science students to elicit software requirements. We believe that requirements elicitation and cooperative skills are highly interrelated and, as such, can be taught more effectively through the use of a computer-supported cooperative environment. By doing this, we will be able to expand the problem solving skills of our students and, thus, release into the computer science community more effective programmers. The environment will encourage cooperative work, and yet provide instructors with the ability to monitor individual as well as group performance. Through this system, students will be able to learn requirements elicitation techniques and, at the same time, gain valuable experience in working together on large team projects.