Improving Web Application Development Course

Providing students with the expertise of scientific and practical skills in Web development requires good preparation and practical competencies, the formation of positive attitudes toward the given course and determining suitable learning outcomes is one of the most important trends and issues in instructional design and technology. One of the most important challenges in this paper is to develop the relatively old course plan to cope with the rapid developments in the world of web application development, this requires Curriculum mapping to identify and address academic gaps, and redundancies. For purposes of improving the overall coherence of the course, its relationship with the other prerequisite courses should be explained more, some learning outcomes may be achieved through more than one course, therefore this study traced other related courses to the problem statement, such as Object-Oriented-Programming (OOP), Software Modelling and Design and other courses. This interconnected set of courses was motivated by the idea of Crosscutting concepts (CCCs) in Web Application Development, such as design patterns, Model-View-Controller (MVC), Entity Framework, Object Relational Mapping, Application Programming Interface (API), and others. This paper proposed some best practices and guidelines to take students gradually from a simple to more complicated tasks in learning Web development.