CCLI-A&I: Sustained Service Learning Projects in Software Engineering Project Courses

CCLI-A

• 批准号: 0510198
• 负责人: Chang Liu
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Ohio University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0510198&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCLI; A& Sustained; Service; Learning

Computer Science (31)Ohio University is collaborating with the Purdue University EPICS Program, the Center for Community Service, the Center for Teaching Excellence, the Nelsonville Public Library, the Office of Code Enforcement and Community Development, and the City of Athens, OH to adopt and integrate the service learning approach pioneered by Purdue University; the "stabilize-and-enhance" approach proved effective by Rice University; and the open-source software development approach to structure software engineering project courses. For software engineering project courses, service-learning projects are a rich source of real-world projects that offer students the opportunity to solve complicated technical problems while interacting with real-world clients. Software engineering educators, however, hesitate in adopting service-learning projects because projects from community partners with different backgrounds and needs are often dramatically different and are not as well structured as traditional academic projects. It is difficult to 1) manage in one class different projects that require entirely different toolsets, languages, platforms, and even have different timelines; 2) evaluate different projects from different community partners and give consistent grades; 3) ensure that service learning projects proposed by community partners are interesting and beneficial to them and in the meantime appropriate for the class with respect to scope, size, and difficulty; and 4) facilitate the adoption of cross-term, cross-team projects to accommodate community partners in need of larger projects. Intellectual Merit: To overcome these challenges, Ohio University is developing an educational software process named GROw (Gradually Ripen Open-source Software) that facilitates cross-term, cross-team project development. In addition, OU is developing consistent grading rubrics for different projects and guidelines to assist community partners to provide appropriate project requirements. Broader Impact. While the open-source approach has been proven effective and scalable in practice, the impacts of this approach on software engineering courses have not been fully studied. This project is pioneering a systemic way to apply the open-source approach on large, multi-term service-learning projects. Through service learning, this project is providing benefit to participating community partners and helping to produce educated software engineers who have a stronger sense of civic responsibility.

计算机科学（31）俄亥俄州大学与普渡大学EPICS计划，社区服务中心，卓越教学中心，纳尔逊维尔公共图书馆，法规执行和社区发展办公室，以及雅典市合作，采用并整合普渡大学开创的服务学习方法;莱斯大学证明有效的“稳定和增强”方法;以及开源软件开发方法来构建软件工程项目课程。对于软件工程项目课程，服务学习项目是现实世界项目的丰富来源，为学生提供解决复杂技术问题的机会，同时与现实世界的客户进行互动。然而，软件工程教育工作者在采用服务学习项目时犹豫不决，因为来自不同背景和需求的社区合作伙伴的项目通常有很大的不同，并且不像传统的学术项目那样结构良好。很难1）在一个类中管理需要完全不同的工具集，语言，平台，甚至具有不同时间表的不同项目; 2）评估来自不同社区合作伙伴的不同项目并给出一致的分数; 3）确保社区合作伙伴提出的服务学习项目对他们来说是有趣和有益的，同时在范围，规模，困难，以及4）促进采用跨期限、跨团队的项目，以适应需要更大项目的社区合作伙伴。智力优势：为了克服这些挑战，俄亥俄州大学正在开发一个名为GROw（逐渐成熟的开源软件）的教育软件过程，以促进跨学期，跨团队的项目开发。此外，联合国开发计划署正在为不同的项目制定一致的评分标准和指导方针，以协助社区合作伙伴提出适当的项目要求。更广泛的影响。虽然开源方法在实践中被证明是有效的和可扩展的，但这种方法对软件工程课程的影响尚未得到充分研究。该项目开创了一种系统的方法，将开源方法应用于大型，多期限的服务学习项目。通过服务学习，该项目为参与的社区合作伙伴提供了好处，并帮助培养出具有更强公民责任感的受过教育的软件工程师。