Software Support for Team Engineering: Educational Case for IT Students

Abstract

Every scientific project is a result of efforts of professionals from different working areas on the basis of their combined knowledge implementation. In the view of a team work significance for IT professionals, team work was proposed for one course from IT educational programme as the main active learning method. To engineer effective teams, SNA-methodology was implemented. The results of this implementation were discussed in the classes as an example of information technology and corresponding software tool usage for a real problem solution. A comparative analysis of two different tools was carried out, which has yielded in one more educational effect. This example of integrated learning which involve students both into professional and scientific activity was proved to be useful for educating real IT specialists.