Transcript Presentation Janne Kankaanpää, Experiences of Teaching and Learning

Experiences of Teaching and Learning
Software Development
with Open Source Approach
T-76.651 Seminar on Distributed Product
Development: Open source Software Development
Presentation 7.12.2004
Janne Kankaanpää,
[email protected]
Research questions
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How open source approach or tools
have been used in teaching software
development?
What are the learning experiences
from using open source approach in
software development?
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Motivation
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Software development education still
follows tradiotional paths
Open source movement offers some
new methods for teaching and learning
software development
Relationship between education and
open source has not been researched
much
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Material
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Software maintenance course
(Andrews & Lutfiyya, 2000)
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Software design and testing course
(Carrington & Kim, 2003)
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Client-server application development
course (Shira-an et al., 2000)
Organizational learning in OS project
(Huntley, 2003)
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Learning as one of the motives
(Ye & Kishida, 2003)
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Results
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Open source approach was used quite similarly in
two software engineering courses
Open source tools were used in many courses to
support teaching and to bring more possibilities to
teaching
The teachers of the courses reported positive
overall teaching experiences, and recommended
open source approach and tools to wider use
Open source and commercial-client projects were
compared with each other as students were made
to participate in them
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... results
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There were very little learning experiences
of open source reported, only a study
related to organizational learning was found
There was also discussion about learning as
one of the main motivators of open source
software developer. This is an aspect that
could be used by software development
educators, and even software companies
that are training new employees
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