Software Engineering: Effective Teaching and Learning Approaches and Practices

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Software Engineering: Effective Teaching and Learning Approaches and Practices

An Idea Group book edited by Dr. Heidi J. C. Ellis, Dr. Steven A. Demurjian, and Dr. J. Fernando Naveda

Content

The book is intended to contain a collection of best practices in the field of software engineering teaching and learning. The objective of the book is to provide guidance to educators that are are already teaching software engineering education or are considering establishing or expanding software engineering education within their institutions. The focus of the book will be on educational practices that have been demonstrated to be effective and supported by quantitative or strong qualitative data. The intent is to provide an understanding of the effective educational approaches used in software engineering education.

This book is envisioned to be divided into an Introduction section and six additional major sections, each of which addresses a major aspect of software engineering education:

Student learning and assessment in software engineering: measurable approaches to student learning and assessment specific to software engineering.
Innovative teaching methods for software engineering: teaching methods and approaches to support software engineering education that allow students to gain knowledge and skills in a wide variety of areas including problem solving, communication, group interaction, abstraction, a range of technical skills, and many more.
Educational technology: the use of technology to support, enhance, and improve student learning and the educational process for software engineering.
Professional practice and ethics: approaches for transferring principles and experiences of professional software engineering practice to students.
Curriculum and education management for software engineering: higher-level issues related to the management and support of software engineering across a curriculum and at the degree level.
Software engineering certification and licensing efforts: current efforts in certification or preparation for certification and licensing.

Format

The book will include a minimum of 12 to 14 chapters equaling between 105,000 to 125,000 words in total. Chapter content must be original. All submissions must be in MS Word format. A double-blind review of drafts of the accepted chapters will be performed.

Important Dates:

Deliverable	Due Date
Call for Chapters Call is closed.	November 1, 2006.
Notification to authors of proposal status	January 15, 2007
Full chapters due	May 30, 2007
Deadline for writing to authors about revisions	September 15, 2007
Revised chapters due from authors	November 15, 2007
Final copies and disks due from authors	December 1, 2007
Ask authors for final changes	December 15, 2007
Final copies due from authors	December 30, 2007
Complete book due to publisher	January 30, 2008

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Dr. Heidi J. C. Ellis
Computer Science Department
Trinity College
300 Summit St.
Hartford, CT 06106
Tel: 00-1-860-297-4175
Fax: 00-1-860-297-3531
email: heidi.ellis@trincoll.edu