THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SIMULATION EDUCATION FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AREA
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (MALAYSIA)
About this paper:
Appears in:
EDULEARN11 Proceedings
Publication year: 2011
Pages: 3527-3534
ISBN: 978-84-615-0441-1
ISSN: 2340-1117
Conference name: 3rd International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 4-6 July, 2011
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
Simulation in education is a replacement model for real world experience. This approach is seen effective to give undergraduate students opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge and practice their skills learnt in laboratory. Simulation education is designed to emphasize outcome based education or known as OBE to bridge the gap between theory and practice.Implementing simulation model to represent real world practice in industry, undergraduate students are trained to deal with real problems in the right atmosphere. The effort eventually prepares the students to face a real working environment when they are graduated from the university. This paper discusses the curriculum designed for simulation education applied for undergraduate students in university, its implementation and the analysis of the outcome product. A specific case of Technical University of Malacca Malaysia is presented here.Keywords:
Simulation education, outcome based education.