Design of interventions for instructional reform in software development education for competency enhancement

Abstract

Community and culture significantly influence value orientation, perceived needs, and motivation as well as provide the ground for creating shared understanding. All disciplines have their own cultures, and all cultures evolve through cross-cultural exchanges. The computing community has created and documented a sound body of knowledge of software engineering (IEEE SWEBOK). It is one of finest examples of multi-cultural synthesis of many disciplines especially engineering, computer science, and even social sciences. With the very large scale worldwide endeavor on computing or software engineering education, it is now time to leverage education and ‘learning’ related research to create and document a theoretically sound body of knowledge of software developers’ education. Such a body of knowledge should naturally require us to synthesis the evolving disciplines of software engineering and higher education.