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）俄亥俄大学正在与普渡大学EPICS项目、社区服务中心、卓越教学中心、尼尔森维尔公共图书馆、代码执行和社区发展办公室以及俄亥俄州雅典市合作，采用并整合普渡大学开创的服务学习方法；莱斯大学的“稳定和增强”方法被证明是有效的；并将开源软件开发方法引入到结构化软件工程项目课程中。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，它为学生提供了解决复杂技术问题的机会，同时与现实世界的客户进行交互。然而，软件工程教育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。1)在一个类中管理不同的项目是很困难的，这些项目需要完全不同的工具集、语言、平台，甚至有不同的时间表；2)评估来自不同社区合作伙伴的不同项目，并给出一致的评分；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、规模和难度方面适合班级；4)促进跨期、跨团队项目的采用，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，俄亥俄大学正在开发一种名为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，开放大学正在为不同的项目制定一致的评分标准和指导方针，以帮助社区合作伙伴提供适当的项目要求。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还没有得到充分的研究。该项目开创了一种将开源方法应用于大型、多期服务学习项目的系统方法。通过服务学习，该项目为参与的社区伙伴提供了好处，并帮助培养了受过良好教育的软件工程师，他们具有更强的公民责任感。