Collaborative Development of a Joint Web-Based Software Engineering Course across Countries

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies

Ivanović

Budimac

et al. 2014

A joint educational project connecting seventeen universities from ten countries, nine of them belonging to wider Balkan area, exists for more than a decade now. The project started with the goal of creating common teaching material for the course in "Software Engineering", but outgrew this original goal. Not just that several more common courses were created, but also the complete master studies direction in the field was produced (within another project continuing the work of some of the participating universities) and is conducted for several years now in two Balkan countries. Over the years, a lot of multicultural and multilingual activities were performed, including exchange of teaching resources and ideas, guest lecturing, creation of tools for translation and standardization of presentations. This paper will present some of the developments and advantages of such approach over the years.

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Teaching in balkan countries

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies

Ivanović

Budimac

et al. 2014

“…However, they were sufficient to guide a distributed development process. Details of the development process can be found in [3].…”

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“…Section 4 focuses on aspects w important for the success of the project, and concentration is on critical points which had Section 6 provides the summary. [3]. Figure 1 provides an ove covering teaching materials fo organizational issues (cf.…”

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Maintaining quality of software engineering education by a shared repository of course materials in a multilateral setting

Bothe

Budimac

2014 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

et al. 2014

Developing teaching materials is a time-consuming and expensive activity. Thus, over the years, several consortia have created joint materials to benefit from them. It is expected that shared teaching materials are a means to save effort in its development, to transfer methodological and technical knowledge between different university staff, and to exchange experience in practical application. However, does it really pay off considering the diversity of different educational environments and the difficulties of using externally produced materials, rather than dedicated individual ones? This paper reports on the experience gained in a multi-country project. Both success factors and problems are outlined. It turned out that sharing an educational repository by several partners supports maintaining quality of teaching materials by joint efforts and distributed contributions.

“…The main coordinator and head of the project is Professor Klaus Bothe from Humboldt University in Berlin, and besides Germany, project today has participants from all Balkan countries: Serbia, Bulgaria, FYR Macedonia, Croatia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, and Montenegro. More details about the project can be found at its' home‐page (http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/swt/intkoop/jcse/), but also in various papers published about it, here we mention some of them .…”

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Master crash course on “software engineering” in a multi‐cultural environment

Bothe

Comp Applic In Engineering

2015

ABSTRACT:In this paper, we will present our experiences with the conduction of a short crash-course on "Software Engineering" of a master level. It represents an excellent example of a good international cooperation in education field. Namely, conducted by the professor from Germany, and assistant from Serbia, the course is presented in Tirana, Albania, on Polytechnic University, Faculty of Information Technology. The course itself was created as a part of an international educational project, comprising nine countries, and fifteen universities. So far, the course has been conducted seven times, and hopefully it helped sharing of knowledge in this very important field of computer science. What is even more important, it certainly helped in sharing good will, improving communication between people and countries, and creating multi-cultural environment for studies. ß 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 23:854-864, 2015; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ cae;