A First Analysis of Students' Feedback to an eduScrum-Based Course in a Computer Science Master's Program

Motivating students in engineering and computer science education is often a challenging task. Many approaches have been proposed to encourage students to be actively involved in classes, and among these suggestions we find several ideas based on agile principles such as Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Kanban. This paper addresses the use of the agile learning concept eduScrum in a data mining course in a computer science master's program. In particular, this preliminary work presents the results of a survey with 150 participants, conducted as part of the eduScrum-based course over three academic years, focusing on students' overall perception of using eduScrum. In addition, a first comparison of the failure rates in the eduScrum-based and the conventionally taught courses is also provided.