Work-Integrated Learning Is a Powerful Learning Methodology That Helps Students to Understand About the Workplace and Their Future Role in It

Abstract 1

Practical work-integrated learning is a powerful learning methodology that helps students to understand about the workplace and their future role in it. It is especially important for software engineering students to learn alongside software engineering theory. In programming project-based courses, the work-integrated learning is expressed through the application of engineering processes and tools as a part of the development methodology. Universities have been trying to choose processes and tools in their practical courses that are the best-practice in the industry and suitable for the course’s constraints to integrate with their programming project-based courses. They hope that it will introduce students to the demands of the workplace and provide more opportunities for the students to learn independently. However, information technology and software engineering changes rapidly and the processes and tools are being replaced or tailored to meet industry’s changes. Staying in-touch with best practices from industry is an increasingly difficult job for educators. Existing approaches solely relied on the selection of processes and tools and assumed that the change does not happen quickly. This paper aims to present an alternative approach to increase work-integrated skills in programming project-based courses by the direct involvement of industry professionals that can prevent the influences of the industry’s changes

Abstract 2

Universities have been trying to choose processes and tools in their practical courses that are the best-practice in the industry and suitable for the course’s constraints to integrate with their programming project-based courses. Staying in-touch with best practices from industry is an increasingly difficult job for educators. Existing approaches solely relied on the selection of processes and tools and assumed that the change does not happen quickly. This paper aims to present an alternative approach to increase...