Paper Info
Title
Free/Open Source Software projects as early MOOCs
Abstract
This paper presents Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) Projects as early Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). Being software development a process where learning and collaboration is of major importance, FLOSS projects have in common many characteristics with MOOCs. This is because many FLOSS projects (such as Linux, Apache, GNOME or KDE, among others) are massive, they are open to anyone to participate, and are driven mainly by telematic means. We therefore present the research literature that has studied FLOSS projects from points of view that are close to learning and discuss how the FLOSS community has approached many of the issues related to acquiring knowledge and skills over the Internet and compare them to how currently MOOCs, both xMOOCs and cMOOCs, address these situations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/EDUCON.2014.6826200
Global Engineering Education Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,computer aided instruction,computer science education,educational courses,project management,public domain software,software management,FLOSS projects,Internet,MOOC,free-libre-open source software,free-open source software projects,massive online open courses,telematic means,MOOCs,e-learning,education,free software,open source
World Wide Web,E learning,Gnome,Engineering,Open source software,Multimedia,Telematics,Software development,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gregorio Robles1129491.67
Hugo Plaza200.34
Gonzalez-Barahona, J.M.3413.81