Cooperative education: A successful PBL experience at Unitec, School of Computing
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Shakiba, Masoud
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2023
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Conference Contribution - Oral Presentation
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Auckland (N.Z.)
New Zealand
Unitec School of Computing, Electrical and Applied Technology
computing education
student assessment
Unitec courses
New Zealand
Unitec School of Computing, Electrical and Applied Technology
computing education
student assessment
Unitec courses
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Shakiba, M.S. (2023, November, 26-27). Cooperative education: A successful PBL experience at Unitec, School of Computing . [Paper presentation]. IEEE - University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Muscat, Oman. https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6540
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Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching and learning approach that provides students with skills to enhance their employability. In PBL, students can build their own project groups and work on real industry problems. They have an opportunity to engage, collaborate and communicate with stakeholders to identify and clarify a problem, propose a technical solution, analyse, design, implement and evaluate a project. Students apply the subject-related theoretical/methodological principles that they have learned throughout their programme of study into a practical project. This strengthens their learning as they get hands-on experience on the entire System Development Life Cycle. This presentation will focus on the implementation and coordination of the capstone project at the Unitec- Te Pūkenga, School of Computing, Electrical and Applied Technology. The Bachelor of Computing Systems students in their final year of study work on a capstone project, delivering five milestones: pre-project arrangement, proposal, implementation, technical documentation, presentation, and demonstration. Throughout the semester, students attend a series of workshops to recap what they have learned in their previous courses and enhance their technical and soft skills. All projects have individual and group components. The stakeholders' Satisfaction Index is used for assessing individual group members' contributions. Industry and academic collaboration, working on real-world problems, workshops, mentorships, and simulation of the workplace environment have contributed to students' performance, employability, and overall satisfaction. The institutional course survey results showed improvement in overall students' satisfaction from 4.5 in semester 1, 2021, to 9.1 in semester 1, 2023 out of 10. Through this presentation, I will share my experience of how industry and academia can collaborate to help close the STEM skills shortage gap. I will promote the use of the capstone project as an authentic teaching and learning method and encourage the industry to engage more in this practice.
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