Towards contextualised software engineering education: An African perspective

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 599-607

  Fendler, Jens ^a   Winschiers Theophilus, Heike ^a  

^a NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Namibia)

Author keywords

Africa; contextualisation; CSE2; culture; curriculum; education; framework; Namibia; software engineering

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BEST-PRACTICES; CONTEXTUALISATION; CULTURE; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; GLOBALISATION; INTERNATIONALISATION; LOCALISATION; NAMIBIA; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SUB-SAHARAN COUNTRIES; TEACHING AND LEARNING; TEACHING SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77954736364     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1806799.1806888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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