CareerVio: A Platform for Personalized Collaborative and Gamified Software Engineering MOOCs

Abstract

Software engineer is one of the highest in-demand manpower jobs in the world. As the prolonged COVID19 pandemic crisis, more and more people throughout the world became unemployed. There arises an incoming demand for reskilling and career shifting to software engineer. Online learning through MOOCs is, therefore, a viable and practical solution. However, reskilling to be a software engineer requires specific platform support that is able to develop both technical and non-technical skills, including management, communication, and teamwork, that traditional MOOCs cannot fulfill the challenges. This research aims to augment the traditional MOOCs with the additional use of personalization, collaboration, and gamification theory in the name of “CareerVio MOOCs Platform”. The distinct supports and services provided by the platform comprise team composition, team recomposition, team learning, and team assessments. CareerVio enables learners to master the necessary skills required in software engineer career, enhances the interaction between learners, and allows them to take what they have learned off the page and put it into practice.