Paper Info
Title
Teaching with HFOSS to provide students with real world experience: an introduction (abstract only)
Abstract
Have you ever wanted your students to contribute to or learn from a real-world software project that benefits society? Want some help getting started? Many students find involvement in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) projects engaging and motivating. As a first step, this workshop will introduce faculty to FOSS tools and culture. Through a virtual field trip into the world of HFOSS you will learn how to find a project, discern characteristics of a good project for student participation and understand how to use IRC, a communication tool used by FOSS developers. The use of version control to support project development will also be discussed. Along the way, you will learn how to support student learning in such projects. All topics will be covered at an introductory level. Participants will take away exercises that can be used in the classroom. Additionally, participants will have access to support in the creation of assignments or curriculum and their implementation from teachers experienced in supporting students in HFOSS participation. Additional information at: http://www.foss2serve.org/index.php/SIGCSE_2014_Workshop Laptop required.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2538862.2539017
SIGCSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
open source software,project development,real-world software project,foss tool,humanitarian free,sigcse_2014_workshop laptop,hfoss participation,good project,real world experience,student participation,foss developer
Laptop,Computer science,Field trip,Software,Curriculum,Multimedia,Open source software,Student learning,Project management
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Darci Burdge173.63
Lori Postner2538.70
Becka Morgan3172.66
Heidi J.C. Ellis4398.91
Stoney Jackson57610.18
Gregory W. Hislop615740.04
Michelle Purcell7213.26