Paper Info
Title
Enhancing software engineering education through open source projects: Four years of students' perspectives
Abstract
This paper presents the results after four years of running of an instructional method that utilizes free/libre open source software (FLOSS) projects as tools for teaching software engineering in formal education. In the last four academic years, a total of 408 juniors majoring in Informatics (in a 4-year program) participated in the study, assuming the roles of requirements engineers, testers, developers, and designers/analysts. Students appreciated the benefits gained by the method and identified aspects that require further improvement. In the paper, we present (a) the details of our method, (b) students' opinions as recorded through a questionnaire including both closed and open ended questions, and (c) conclusions on how the use of FLOSS projects can be applied, and be beneficial for the students.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s10639-012-9239-3
EAIT
Keywords
Field
DocType
floss project,open source project,libre open source software,enhancing software engineering education,instructional method,teaching software engineering,formal education,academic year,4-year program,requirements engineer,learning community
Online learning,Closed-ended question,Informatics,Open learning,Open education,Software engineering,Computer science,Knowledge management,Pedagogy,Project-based learning,Open source software,Learning community
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
2
1573-7608
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.50
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pantelis M. Papadopoulos160.50
Ioannis Stamelos2124391.67
Andreas Meiszner3111.40