2026-05-18T18:56:33Zhttps://repository.lib.bcit.ca/oai/requestoai:repository.lib.bcit.ca:node-14722025-05-07T21:55:10Znode:32oai_pmh:all_repository_itemsImproving students' engagement with large-team software development projects
Proceedings from the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Computer science and technology education should provide not only a strong theoretical foundation, but also problem solving, and communication and teamwork skills to prepare the students for careers. Including projects in curricula is a norm in many disciplines. However, projects are generally individual or based on small teams (two to five members). This paper presents my approach to teaching a capstone undergraduate computer technology course at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in the Computer System Technology (CST) Program in which a large class of students (maximum 22), organized into small teams work together and apply Agile software development practices to design, implement, integrate and test a large project. This model provides students with unique learning opportunities and experiences, as well as improving their soft skills, engagement and motivation.,Peer reviewed,Conference paper,Published.
2018-07-02
ISBN: 9781450357074
https://doi.org/10.1145/3197091.3205836
English
Gutica, Mirela
ACM
Text
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Computer science
Education