Teaching Software Engineering Course with Cooperative Learning Method: A Pilot Study

This paper focuses on presenting the initial results of our educational research conducted in teaching software engineering (SE) related courses. SE related courses could be challenging courses to teach and learn at the undergraduate level. Difficulties in understanding and visualizing the various concepts and theories in SE especially in software system modelling among students must be considered as major issues. This pilot project aims at integrating Cooperative Learning Method (CLM) to enhance students' ability to understand, analyze and visualize organization's business problems, system analysis, and system modeling. Requirement Engineering course has been selected for the pilot project experiment and several CLM approaches have been integrated into its teaching and learning pedagogy throughout the semester. Reflection survey has been conducted to gather students' reflection and feedback on the CLMs integration in teaching and learning SE. Significant results were found that integration of CLMs into teaching and learning pedagogy able to assist students enhancing understanding and visualizing organization's business problems, software system analysis and software system modeling.