A METHODOLOGY TO ENHANCE PROGRAMMING SKILLS OF E-LEARNING STUDENTS

Abstract

In this study, we proposed an approach, which helped students to improve their software engineering, designing, developing and coding skills. As a part of this methodology, we developed a comprehensive infrastructure including client-server, sub-versioning control setup and a three tier teaching pedagogy entitled as student-mentor-teacher layer. To test the proposed methodology two experiments were conducted; two types of feedbacks were collected. Adempiere ERP- an open source project was selected as test case. We also highlighted challenges of working on open source projects. Results showed that students who worked on open source projects were more skillful in designing and developing software projects than those who worked on standalone projects. Feedback of student’s mentors as well as of teachers recommended using the proposed methodology that helped in improving technical skills by working with highly experienced professionals of open source software community.