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）俄亥俄州大学正在与普渡大学史诗计划，社区服务中心，卓越教学中心，尼尔森维尔公共图书馆，代码执法和社区发展办公室以及俄亥俄州的雅典市合作，以采用和整合Purdue University的服务学习方法；赖斯大学证明了“稳定和陈述”的方法；以及开源软件开发方法，用于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中的丰富来源，这些项目为学生提供了解决复杂技术问题的机会，同时与现实世界中的客户互动。但是，软件工程教育工作者犹豫不决，因为来自具有不同背景和需求的社区合作伙伴的项目通常差异很大，并且结构不如传统学术项目。很难1）在一个类别的不同项目中管理，这些项目需要完全不同的工具集，语言，平台，甚至具有不同的时间表； 2）评估来自不同社区合作伙伴的不同项目并提供一致的成绩； 3）确保社区合作伙伴提出的服务学习项目对他们很有趣且有益，并且在范围，规模和困难方面适合班级； 4）促进采用跨学期跨团队项目，以容纳需要大型项目的社区合作伙伴。知识分子优点：为了克服这些挑战，俄亥俄州大学正在开发一个名为GRAW（逐渐成熟的开源软件）的教育软件流程，该过程有助于跨学期，跨球队项目开发。此外，OU正在为不同的项目和指南开发一致的评分标准，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已被证明有效且可扩展，但这种方法对软件工程课程的影响尚未得到充分研究。该项目正在开创一种系统性的方式，将开源方法应用于大型多期服务学习项目。通过服务学习，该项目为参与的社区合作伙伴提供了好处，并帮助产生具有更强烈的公民责任感的受过教育的软件工程师。