Autoren: Dieter Landes, Yvonne Sedelmaier
A Software Modelling Course at the Age of Three. An Application of Competence-Oriented Didactics. In: Jürgen Mottok und Georg Hagel (Hg.): 2nd European Conference Software Engineering Education (ECSEE), Aachen: Shaker, S. 131–142.
Abstract-Instructors not only in higher education are regularly faced with the problem that they need to develop a new course, or to adapt an existing one to changed requirements. This is especially true for topics related to in-formation technology (IT) since technological progress is fast in this domain. However, instructors are not prepared really well for this task since they typically have a professional and educational background in areas different from pedagogy. Therefore, some sort of methodological framework to sup-port the systematic development and refinement of courses would be highly appreciated. We devised such a method, called Competence-Oriented Didactics.
This paper presents a case study which shows how Competence-Oriented Didactics is applied to a software modelling course in several iterations, to-gether with their pedagogical underpinning. In particular, revisions initiated a shift towards active and inductive learning, which builds on exercises that make students actively discover relevant requirements engineering issues. As a consequence, students better understand why requirements engineering and several of its core methods and techniques are needed, thus preparing them better for their professional life.
EVELIN – Experimentelle Verbesserung des Lernens von Software Engineering