Consideration of Educational Tools and Methods of Software Engineering Education for non-CSE Students

Abstract

In the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), one of the important issues is to educate software engineering not only to computer sience and engineering (CSE) students who specialize in information but also to non-CSE students who major in humanities and society and so on. It is not only for gaining a job in developing and operating digital technology and systems, but also for solving many social problems such as sustainable development goals (SDGs) and also leading to ethics such as human happiness. It is necessary to combine all kinds of knowledge such as science, engineering, humanities, social science, etc. in order to solve complex social problems. Students majoring in humanities and society do not have enough knowledge and skills in engineering like first year student, so they need educational tools and methods to learn software engineering smoothly. In this case study, we conducted to combine the Learning Management System (LMS) of communication function which is a share tool by digital approach and Idea-sketching for idea generation by analog approach such as pen and paper. The classes for humanities and social sience students who are not good at computer operation have found that they learn smoothly. As contribution of this study, it suggested a possibility effective as an educational tools and methods for first year students majoring in computer science as well as students majoring humanities and social science.