Constructivism as guiding philosophy for software engineering education

  • Authors:
  • Said Hadjerrouit

  • Affiliations:
  • Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Within the last few years constructivism has attracted both computer science and software engineer educators, because of its potential for improving academic learning. Currently, however, the application of constructivism is limited to examples in specific contexts so that it is difficult to transfer them to other institutions or even other courses. To apply effectively constructivism to software engineering and computer science education, instructors need a generic pedagogical model for translating constructivist principles into practice. This paper reports on the application of a pedagogical model for translating constructivism into a Web-based course in object-oriented software engineering.