Integrating authentic learning into a software development course: an experience report

Authors:
Evelyn Brannock;Robert Lutz;Nannette Napier
Affiliations:
Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA, USA;Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA, USA;Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper describes our experience integrating an authentic learning project into a junior-level software development course. During the course, students applied full software development life cycle processes to meet a campus need -- providing classroom clicker support without purchasing additional hardware. The paper provides the motivation for this approach, summarizes relevant developments in classroom response systems, details the design of the class project, and shares our results. Finally, we offer reflections describing both intended and unintended outcomes of this experiment.