Volume 17, 2018 COLLABORATIVE APPROACH IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CASE Aileen Joan Vicente* College of Science,
[email protected] University of the Philippines Cebu, Cebu City, Philippines Tiffany Adelaine Tan School of Management,
[email protected] University of the Philippines Cebu, Cebu City, Philippines Alvin Ray Yu College of Science,
[email protected] University of the Philippines Cebu, Cebu City, Philippines *Corresponding Author ABSTRACT Aim/Purpose This study was aimed at enhancing students’ learning of software engineering methods. A collaboration between the Computer Science, Business Management, and Product Design programs was formed to work on actual projects with real clients. This interdisciplinary form of collaboration simulates the realities of a diverse Software Engineering team. Background A collaborative approach implemented through projects has been the established pedagogy for introducing the Software Engineering course to undergraduate Computer Science students. The collaboration, however, is limited to collabora- tion among Computer Science students and their clients. This case study ex- plored an enhancement to the collaborative approach to project development by integrating other related disciplines into the project development framework; hence, the Interdisciplinary Approach. Methodology This study adopted the case method approach. An interdisciplinary service inno- vation activity was proposed to invite other disciplines in the learning process of the computer science students. The agile methodology Scrum was used as the software development approach during project development. Survey data were collected from the students to establish (a) their perception of the interdiscipli- nary approach to project development; (b) the factors that influenced success or Accepted by Editor Athanassios Jimoyiannis│ Received: March 16, 2018│ Revised: May 8, May 19, 2018 │ Accepted: May 22, 2018.