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Managing diversity in distributed software development education – a longitudinal case study

Authors:

Ivana Bosnic , Federico Ciccozzi, Ivica Crnkovic, Igor Cavrak , Elisabetta Di Nitto , Raffaela Mirandola , Mario Zagar

Research groups:

Industrial Software Engineering
Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Systems

Publication Type:

Journal article

Venue:

ACM Transactions on Computing Education - Special Issue on Global Software Engineering Education

Abstract

Teaching Distributed Software Development with real distributed settings is a challenging and rewarding task. Distributed courses are idiosyncratically more challenging than standard local courses.We have experienced this during our distributed course, which has been run for 14 consecutive years. In this paper, we present and analyze the emerging diversities specific to distributed project-based courses. We base our arguments on our experience and we exploit a three-layered distributed course model, which we use to analyze several course elements throughout the 14-years lifetime of our distributed project-based course. In particular, we focus on the changes that the course underwent throughout the years, combining findings obtained from the analyzed data with our own teaching perceptions. Additionally, we propose insights on how to manage the various diversity aspects.

Bibtex

@article{Bosnic5070,
author = {Ivana Bosnic and Federico Ciccozzi and Ivica Crnkovic and Igor Cavrak and Elisabetta Di Nitto and Raffaela Mirandola and Mario Zagar},
title = {Managing diversity in distributed software development education – a longitudinal case study},
pages = {1--22},
month = {April},
year = {2018},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Computing Education - Special Issue on Global Software Engineering Education},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/5070-}
}