Combining Innovative Technology and Context based Approaches in Teaching Software Engineering

Sustainability in learning is very essential for a sustainable future which largely depends on education. Sustainable requires learners to increase and rebuild base-knowledge as the circumstances change get more complex. This becomes obvious particularly in- formation technology (IT) discipline where rapidly changing practice getting complicated. enables students use their from formal education into practice, provide hands experience (HOE) help them knowledge base complex situations. also achieve high graduate outcome rate (GOR) helps sector become sustainable. In existing policies frameworks, institutions are moving towards off-campus less face-to-face learning. As result, downward trend experienced students’ engagement across IT discipline. affects ability achieving HOE appears be one of reasons low GOR poses threat sustainability both stakeholder learners’ perspectives. paper presents combined approach context-based teaching with incorporation innovative engage better The proposed was adopted software engineering course taught at School Deakin University, Australia. Students were provided material industry standard tools HOE. evaluation assessment results reports that significantly impacted positively classes improved