A Two-Sided Approach of Applying Software Engineering Perspectives in Higher Education

Using the Perspective Based Reading technique opens doors to new and enriching opportunities to design new teaching/learning arrangements. We set up a new approach that implements a perspective based task and (additionally) perspective based feedback. Therefore we provide the theoretical basis and elaborate more on Perspective Based Reading and Peer Feedback as well as on the needed perspectives, which we extract from the software development life cycle phases. We also define a new type of task that we called perspective based task with a perspective based feedback. For a better understanding we present an example scenario for a design pattern unit in a software engineering course.

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