Prototyping a Software Engineering Educational Community

软件工程(34)这个项目建立了一个积极和富有成效的软件工程教育社区，大学将在其中合作，分享想法、人工制品、材料和经验。作为一个概念验证项目，它建立了这样一个社区的原型，通过在佛罗里达大西洋大学和弗吉尼亚大学之间在这一领域建立联合活动来评估这一想法的可行性。为了实现向本科生提供软件工程教育经验的既定目标，以便更好地为他们在行业和政府中开发大型复杂系统做好准备，该项目正在寻找更好的方法，允许教育工作者合作开发和测试教育材料。重点是社区建设，a)开发共享课程材料和技术，b)开发方法，使昂贵的硬件组件可以在互联网上共享，从而改善更多学生获得此类设备的机会。两所大学都在研究现有的教学工具，以了解如何成功地将它们改编为软件工程教育社区的其他成员使用。现有的教室人工制品和以前由PI开发的练习将得到改进，以供共享使用。弗吉尼亚大学使用的移动机器人硬件和软件配置将进行修改，以便佛罗里达大西洋大学的学生开发软件，通过网络远程操作机器人。两所大学的软件开发课程也在使用类似的网络摄像机实验。该项目建立在两所大学之间现有合作的基础上，以帮助确定如何扩大多机构的努力以产生全国影响。它直接涉及教师发展和将新技术整合到本科教育中的主题。

Software Engineering (34)This project establishes an active and productive software engineering education community in which universities will cooperate to share ideas, artifacts, materials and experience. As a proof-of-concept project, it prototypes such a community to evaluate the feasibility of the idea by establishing joint activities in this area between Florida Atlantic University and the University of Virginia. To achieve the stated goal of providing educational experiences in software engineering to undergraduate students in order to better prepare them to develop large and complex systems in industry and government, the project is seeking better ways to allow educators to collaborative develop and test educational materials. The focus is on community building by a) developing curricular materials and techniques for sharing them and b) developing methods whereby expensive hardware components can be shared across the internet, thus improving accessibility of such equipment to more students. Existing teaching artifacts at both universities are being studied to see how they can be successfully adapted for use by other members of the software engineering education community. Existing classroom artifacts and exercises previously developed by the PI's will be enhanced for shared use. Mobile robot hardware and software configurations used at the University of Virginia will be modified so that students at Florida Atlantic University an develop software to operate the robots remotely over the network. Similar experiments with networked video cameras (webcams) are being used in software development courses at both universities. This project builds upon an existing collaboration between the two universities to help determine how multi-institution efforts can be expanded to make a national impact. It directly addresses the themes of faculty development and the integration of new technologies into undergraduate education.