Students’ Perspectives on Active Learning and Learning Sequences in Enterprise Architecture Modelling

Resumé

Enterprise Architecture Modelling is about understanding organisational situations which often do not have a definitive formulation, with a right or wrong solution and involves understanding the different perspectives of an enterprise, such as its goals, processes and Information Technology, and how they relate and affect one another. It is often described as dealing with a “wicked problem” and teaching Enterprise Architecture Modelling has many challenges. One of the teaching and learning approaches for teaching such subjects is Active Learning. In this paper, we describe how Active Learning and a sequence of learning activities have been used in a Masters level Enterprise Architecture modelling course. The research questions addressed in this paper are i) What are the students’ perspectives on active learning tasks such as student presentations and peer feedback? and ii) Can sequences of active learning tasks be beneficial for students learning Enterprise Architecture modelling? The results from the study show that the students perceive the learning activities as positive.