A Project-Centric Curriculum Design

Experiences in Project Design in a Software Engineering Curriculum

Second-year software engineering students at the University of Waterloo were given an experimental project in one of their core courses in software engineering with the intent to focus on agile design principles and patterns. This paper discusses both the students’ and instructor’s successes and failures of this implementation.

Architecture-Centric Project Estimation

Lessons from a dropped ICT curriculum design project: A retrospective view

Developing competent human resources is of crucial importance to policy makers aiming to move towards an information society. Universities are often designated the task of training Information Technology/Systems (IT/S) professionals for the economy of the future. This chapter critically reflects upon a dropped ICT curriculum design project which was to be used in ten Iranian universities. It ai...

A Narrative Inquiry Curriculum & Professional Development of Student-Teachers in Farhangian University: Design Curriculum Model

The aim of the present study is to design and validate the narrative inquiry curriculum for professional development of student-teachers in Farhangian university. The model of narrative inquiry curriculum is grounded on the theories of Dewey, Bruner, Schwab, Vygotsky, Donald Schön, Clandinin and Connelly. In this model, learning is a reflective practice and experience-based practice. The studen...

Viewpoint Centric Design

System engineering often states that respecting diversity during the upstream stages of a system designing is an unavoidable feature of the designing process. In the field of Information Systems, the ability to evolve is a pivotal quality of its computer aided components. A framework is presented to view an Information System as a designing place where viewpoints interact with each other on obj...