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By Dirk Riehle, on January 24th, 2012
Today, a colleague confided in me:
“Dirk, if I were a student, I wouldn’t attend your classes. I never liked to speak up and would rather cram for an exam at the end of the semester rather than open my mouth in class.”
Well, that was quite the bummer. However:
We teach to make the most of your time: To achieve the highest possible learning in the shortest amount of time. Your (student) time is precious, and so is ours. For that, we encourage active class participation. To make this clear, parts of your grades depend on that participation.
Look at the following increasing steps of class engagement:
Continue reading Why We Teach The Way We Do
By Dirk Riehle, on November 14th, 2011
The chair of Geograhpy studies at LMU published an entrepreneurship ranking of German universities, see this PDF. FAU’s total score is in the top third, place 21, up from place 34 two years earlier. I’m not entirely sure how to interpret it, but one thing about FAU stands out: On the dimension of Entrepreneurship education, it scores bottom third, hurting its overall score.
I’m not sure this is a fair assessment, or maybe if it is, the question of why needs to be asked. That the recent EXIST IV funding round directed all money to Munich, Bavaria’s capital, rather than some to Nuremberg, Bavaria’s second largest city, is not going to help. But if entrepreneurship education needs improvement, the OSR Group is doing its part. With FIRM, PROD, and AMOS we are offering three entrepreneurship related classes to students.
In particular the AMOS lab course has spawned the Mydosis startup, which recently received seed stage funding of about EUR 100K. We are now working on the successor, Free Seas Ahoy! while still supporting Mydosis. From my (professorial) perspective, the ranking results support my current approach: Rather than trying to be a broad platform for many startups, I’m hands-on with exactly one startup per year.
By Dirk Riehle, on October 18th, 2011
By Dirk Riehle, on September 13th, 2011
Kurzfassung: Wir würden gern von Ihnen hören, wenn Sie von interessanten Fallbeispielen wissen, von denen unsere Studierenden mittels Case-Methode lernen können.
Langfassung: In der Softwaretechnik können wir häufig Lehrinhalte mit “harten” Konzepten und Fakten in Vorlesungen gut vermitteln. Geht es aber um weniger technische Fragen von Geschäftsstrategie und -taktik in der Softwareindustrie, geraten reine Vorlesungen schnell an ihre Grenzen. Besser wäre es, mit konkreten der Praxis entlehnten Beispielen Studierenden Material an die Hand zu geben, anhand dessen sie sich die relevanten Konzepte erarbeiten können. In der Vorlesung wird dann diese Eigenarbeit vertieft und diskutiert. Diese Lehrmethodik nennt sich auch die “Case-Methode”, und sie wurde bereits vor ca. 100 Jahren an der Harvard Business School eingeführt und hat sich seitdem in der Lehr- und Lernpraxis bewährt. Je größer die Unsicherheit in der Entscheidungsfindung in einer Berufssituation, je “weicher” die fachlichen Konzepte, desto besser funktioniert die Case-Methode als Vorbereitung der Studierenden auf ihre Berufspraxis.
Continue reading Aufruf zur Unterstützung berufsnaher Lehre für die Softwareindustrie mittels Case-Methode
By Dirk Riehle, on September 11th, 2011
Here a list of (permanent) links that point to the schedules of classes we teach.
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Code |
Type |
Clickable |
Copyable |
Full Name |
Status |
| FAU |
PSWT |
Lecture |
Schedule |
http://goo.gl/0fy1T |
Applied Software Engineering |
Every WS |
| FAU |
ADPP |
Lecture |
Schedule |
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Advanced Design and Programming Practices |
In Planning |
| FAU |
NYT |
Lab Course |
Schedule |
http://goo.gl/VqoFO |
Nailing your (Research) Thesis |
Every WS |
| FAU |
AMOS |
Lab Course |
Schedule |
http://goo.gl/BZpU8 |
Agile Methods and Open Source |
Every SS |
| FAU |
ARCH |
Seminar |
Schedule |
http://goo.gl/ZXJjg |
Software Architecture |
Every WS |
| FAU |
PROD |
Seminar |
Schedule |
http://goo.gl/tTAI0 |
Product Management |
Every SS |
| FAU |
UXD |
Seminar |
Schedule |
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User Experience Design |
In Planning |
| FAU |
FIRM |
Seminar |
Schedule |
http://goo.gl/Xpz90 |
The Software Firm |
Irregular |
All of them are world-readable Google Spreadsheets.
By Dirk Riehle, on September 7th, 2011
To enhance the experience of learning software engineering at the OSR Group (OSS), Applied Software Engineering Alliance (PSWT), we are adding a line of *-TALK classes to our current set of seminars (ARCH, PROD, FIRM).
- A TALK class will feature a video on a pertinent topic of interest that we will watch together and discuss in class. A short homework assignment of writing a summary paragraph about what was noteworthy will round out the class.
- A TALK class is intended to complement a matching more traditional seminar-style class. Hence, for ARCH, the software architecture seminar class, there will be ARCH-TALK, where we watch videos on software architecture. For PROD there will be PROD-TALK etc.
- Any X + X-TALK combined will constitute their own 5 ECTS seminar module. X + X-TALK will typically be taught as a block from 9am to noon Monday or Tuesday mornings, starting this coming winter semester with ARCH + ARCH-TALK.
The videos shown will sample the best current teaching from the web. For example, for ARCH we will draw on:
and others more. Feel free to make some suggestions!
By Dirk Riehle, on July 21st, 2011
Today we would like to point you to PARC’s running event series, which is being livestreamed, and for which many events have been recorded for later viewing. Of relevance to our teaching are the following two current talks:
Enjoy!
By Dirk Riehle, on July 11th, 2011
Today Prof. Bernd Hindel lectured in “The Firm”, our seminar on how software product firms work. Prof. Hindel is both an honorary professor of the computer science department and the CEO of local but internationally operating software engineering firm Methodpark. The topic today was finances and legal, and despite what seemed like a dry topic, students were complete and listening attentively. Below, please find some photo impressions from the lecture.
Continue reading Impressions from Prof. Hindel lecturing in The Firm
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