Businesses And Education Cooperation Through Classroom Projects

This paper describes the incorporation of projects supplied by local businesses/industries into computer software courses in an attempt to provide students with an opportunity to develop collaborative problem solving skills, teamwork, professional responsibility, and most importantly an exposure to design and development situations very difficult to reproduce from textbook projects. Our paper describes the projects, discusses implementation problems, assessment procedures, students’ attitude toward the experience, and instructors’ reflections on the process.