Developing a software engineering curriculum for the emerging software industry in China

O'Leary, C., Lawless, D., Gordon, D., Haifeng, L. and Bechkoum, K. (2006) Developing a software engineering curriculum for the emerging software industry in China. [Conference Proceedings]

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China currently has one of the world's fastest growing software industries. However the demand for skilled software engineers is currently outstripping supply. Educational institutes are the primary provider ofsofiware engineers. Not only can China's educational institutes not meet the demands of software engineers in terms of quantity, the quality of software engineering graduates at the moment is considered insufficient. The need for educational institutes to be more aware of industry requirements for software engineering graduates and to tailor the curriculum and teaching and learning practice to better fulfill these has been recognized as critical to China's success. To assist with this the Emersion project was established in 2003 to attempt to exchange knowledge and expertise between the EU and China with the goal of developing an industry-oriented education model for software engineering in China. In this paper, we describe our experiences in developing the curriculum which is at the heart of this model and which is based unpublished best practice and experience of industry and academia in the EU and China. © 2006 IEEE.

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https://eprints.teachingandlearning.ie/id/eprint/3454

Title:

Developing a software engineering curriculum for the emerging software industry in China

Authors:

O'Leary, C., Lawless, D., Gordon, D., Haifeng, L. and Bechkoum, K.

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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/10756/33901/01617...

Date:

2006

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Conference code: 68338; Cited By :1; Export Date: 23 February 2015; Correspondence Address: O'Leary, C.; Dublin Institute of Technology, School of Computing, Kevin St., Dublin 8, Ireland; email: ciaran.oleary@comp.dit.ie; References: (2001) China: Summary of the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2001-2005) - Information Industry, , www.trp.hku.hk/infofile/china/2002/10-5-yr-plan.pdf; Quan, J., Hu, Q., Wang, X., IT Is not for everyone in China (2005) Comm, of the ACM, 48. , April; Liu, X., Technology policy, language and human resource factors in Chinese software industry (2004) International Conference on Strategies for Building Software Industries in Developing Countries, , May; (2001) Annual Report of China Software Industry (2002-2003), p. 153. , China; Florida, R., Tinagli, I., (2004) Europe in the Creative Age, , demos,co.uk/EUCIfinal_pdf_media_public.aspx; Gallen, S., (2005) Background to the Irish Software Industry, , Enterprise Ireland, nsd.ie/htm/ssii/back.htm; (2004) The Irish Software Industry - A European Success Story; (2004) Software Industry Statistics for 1991-2003, , http://www.nsd.ie/htm/ssii/stat.htm; (2004) ICST&I, Report of Technology Foresight Ireland Information and Communication Technologies Foresight Panel, , www.forfas,ie/icsti/statements/tforesight/ict/index.html; (2005), software.hitedu.cn/softwareEnglish/OuMeng/asia-link.aspEU Asia-Link Programme, europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/asia-link/ index_en.htm, 2005Lawless, D., Wu, B., Xu, X., Yuan, C., Bechkoum, K., Requirements for an industry-oriented IT education model to support the emerging knowledge economy in China (2004) Second International Conference on Knowledge Economy and Development of Science and Technology, p. 403. , Tsinghua Uni. Prs., China, Sept; (2004) Computing Curricula 2004, , ACM; Hattie, J., Marsh, H.W., The relationship between teaching and research: A meta-analysis review of educational research (1996) Review of Educational Research, 66 (4), pp. 507-542; (1956) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, , B. S. Bloom (Ed.), Pearson Education; (2005), www.nqai.ie/en/Schön, D., (1984) The Reflective Practitioner, , Basic Books; (2004), http://www.qaa.ac.uk/A4 - IEEE Comput. Society Tech. Council on Softw. Eng., TCSE

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Engineering education; Knowledge based systems; Learning systems; Software engineering; Teaching; Technology transfer; Education model; Knowledge exchange; Software industries; Curricula

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