Dimensions of experientialism for software engineering education

Abstract

There is a gap between the abstract concepts taught in the classroom and the skills needed for students to succeed once they join the workplace. The Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP) program was developed to narrow this gap by enabling undergraduate computer science students to have an experiential software engineering learning opportunity. Over the past 8 years, 737 students from 30 universities have taken part in this program.