Report on Problem Based Learning for Software Engineering

Software Engineering is far more than programming and requirements specifications. In the SWEBOK, software engineering is defined through 15 different disciplines and topics also covering soft skills such as project management and intercooperation between teams. Problem Based Learning, PBL, is a pedagogical learning approach used amongst others at AAU. This paper discusses how PBL can support software engineering and provide soft skills called for in industry and investigates how Ph.D. students with a traditional software engineering background understand and perceive PBL. The paper is based on a case study prepared as a part of the European Erasmus Project Paths Ways to Ph.D. In this project skills in software engineering has been exchanged and developed for the target countries Russia and Jordan as a way to support their process of developing Ph.D. programs in software engineering.

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