Toward enhancing the training of software engineering students and professionals using active video watching

Soft skills (e.g., the ability to communicate, negotiate, collaborate) are essential for software engineers. However, teaching soft skills in a conventional classroom setting is time-consuming and resource-intensive. In this paper, we present and motivate the idea of adopting active video watching (...

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Published in2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET) pp. 5 - 8
Main Authors Galster, Matthias, Mitrovic, Antonija, Gordon, Matthew
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 27.05.2018
SeriesACM Conferences
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Active video watching
professionals
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Computing education
soft skills
Software engineering
students
Training
students
soft skills
active video watching
professionals
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Summary:Soft skills (e.g., the ability to communicate, negotiate, collaborate) are essential for software engineers. However, teaching soft skills in a conventional classroom setting is time-consuming and resource-intensive. In this paper, we present and motivate the idea of adopting active video watching (AVW) for soft skills training in software engineering education. Also, we discuss how AVW can contribute to formal learning (e.g., at universities), but also to professional development (e.g., in software development organizations). Furthermore, we present AVW-Space, a web-based AVW platform. Finally, we report our experience from using AVW in a software engineering project course to teach university students presentation skills as one example of soft skills essential for practicing software engineers.
ISBN:9781450356602
1450356605
DOI:10.1145/3183377.3183384