Collaborative learning strategies in software engineering course

This paper presents the research design for a Scholarship of Learning and Teaching project that aims to explore how the collaborative learning strategies can impact student learning in Software Engineering course. Collaboration for software engineering is central as multiple engineers work together on a project. Besides the specialist individual skills, it is important that IT professionals complement each other and collaborate. Future trends place utmost importance to the skill and thus it is important that our university teaching incorporates activities and tasks that foster group work and collaboration. The existing literature for collaborative learning strategies used in University teaching is reviewed in light of demand in the industry for team work and collaboration.