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Active Learning Strategies and Blended Learning Approach for Teaching Under Graduate Software Engineering Course


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Software Engineering is a core theory course offered in Undergraduate Engineering programmes. It is one of the challenging courses for the teaching faculty. The course includes various systematic approaches, and methods that can be employed for designing, developing, testing and maintaining quality software applications. The course also focuses on the latest tools and technologies that are being practiced in the industry. Effective content delivery methods leveraging active learning strategies for the classical topics have been well researched and established. However, improvement in content delivery plan and execution is required for relatively new and evolving topics like DevOps and version controlling. This paper presents an experimental study of application of the various active learning techniques such as discussion forums, tech talks followed by quiz for such topics. Impact of the application of the improved content delivery plan on the course outcomes attainment by the learners has also been observed and presented. The enhanced approach has proved to improve student learning outcomes, which are measured and presented using a standard set of tools and metrics. This paper uses the logistic regression model for the study of impact of blended learning approach on student learning outcomwhich produes ces 60% accuracy.

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DevOps, Software Maintenance, Version Controlling, Software Engineering, Course Outcome Attainment, Active Learning Strategies.
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Authors

Abirami A. M.
Department of Information Technology, Thiagarajar College of Engineering , Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Pudumalar S.
Department of Information Technology, Thiagarajar College of Engineering , Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Thiruchadai Pandeeswari S.
Department of Information Technology, Thiagarajar College of Engineering , Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract


Software Engineering is a core theory course offered in Undergraduate Engineering programmes. It is one of the challenging courses for the teaching faculty. The course includes various systematic approaches, and methods that can be employed for designing, developing, testing and maintaining quality software applications. The course also focuses on the latest tools and technologies that are being practiced in the industry. Effective content delivery methods leveraging active learning strategies for the classical topics have been well researched and established. However, improvement in content delivery plan and execution is required for relatively new and evolving topics like DevOps and version controlling. This paper presents an experimental study of application of the various active learning techniques such as discussion forums, tech talks followed by quiz for such topics. Impact of the application of the improved content delivery plan on the course outcomes attainment by the learners has also been observed and presented. The enhanced approach has proved to improve student learning outcomes, which are measured and presented using a standard set of tools and metrics. This paper uses the logistic regression model for the study of impact of blended learning approach on student learning outcomwhich produes ces 60% accuracy.

Keywords


DevOps, Software Maintenance, Version Controlling, Software Engineering, Course Outcome Attainment, Active Learning Strategies.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16920/jeet%2F2021%2Fv35i1%2F152540