Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in software engineering

Coccoli, Mauro; Stanganelli, Lidia; Maresca, Paolo

doi:10.1109/educon.2011.5773267

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“…The project was called ETC (Enforcing Team Cooperation) and it was attended by the following universities: Naples Federico II, Bergamo, Milano Bicocca, Genoa, Bari, Bologna. The project involved one hundred students and used the IBM Rational's Jazz vision (see references [12] and [13] for more detailed descriptions).…”

Section: A Enforcing Team Cooperationmentioning

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Teaching Computer Programming Through Hands-on Labs on Cognitive Computing

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Maresca

Stanganelli

2016

International Conferences on Distributed Multimedia Systems

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Abstract-In this work we report more recent results of a longlasting educational project that we have been carrying on for several years and is evolving continuously. The objective of the mentioned project is making students work on the production of small, yet full featured, software prototypes with a collaborative approach, in a dedicated development environment with suited tools and facilities. At the same time, we seek to lay the foundations to build a pragmatic model to teach cognitive computing programming. We conducted such experience in a programming course at the University of Naples "Federico II" exploiting a software development environment based on the Platform as a Service (PaaS). This made possible to perform a set of cooperative learning activities that we used to demonstrate practically some theoretical concepts, also stressing the use of cognitive computing tools, which introduce a new way of thinking the software design process. From its inception, this educational project has involved a relevant number of students, which has been growing continuously, year after year. At our first attempts, students were assigned a specific activity, which was expected to be concluded within one year. Then, as new classes arrived, we have seen that it was possible to start new activities starting from the precedent achievements, thus requiring further evolutions of the available prototypes. This allowed creating more complex and complete projects, as new tools and services were made available, carrying new opportunities. In the present release, such evolutionary path has led to using the IBM Bluemix platform with its wide range of components, including Watson that is devoted to cognitive computing. This work goes in the direction of developing the smart university model, by using innovative and intelligent services to help raising a new generation of software engineers but also to promote and disseminate a new way for designing and building innovative applications.

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Section: A Enforcing Team Cooperationmentioning

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Teaching Computer Programming Through Hands-on Labs on Cognitive Computing

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2016

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“…Teamwork ability is an essential skill for students to acquire; learning and practicing this skill can give a glance to their future team-working experience. In particular, we are talking about students involved in software engineering activities and, consequently, the ETC project creates an effective CSCL system for higher education that targets the area of software engineering, computer programming, and team cooperation for software analysis and software development [14]. In the rest of the paper we will refer to this particular case study.…”

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“…More in details, in this paper, we are going to showcase the outcome of an educational activity that we carried on in a distributed environment based on cloud computing and services. Specifically, we make reference to the most recent stage of a long-term project aimed to empowering collaboration skills in software engineering students, the ETC (Enforcing Team Collaboration) project [5]. In this project, students are grouped together to create small teams regardless of they might be from different universities as well as from different countries.…”

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Teaching Computer Programming in a Platform as a Service Environment

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In this paper we recall a previous research on the future development of the current model of higher education, which highlighted that the labor market is looking for people with competences and skills reflecting a T-shape model. As a consequence, universities should include a wider mix of disciplines in the curricula of their courses. Hence, to overcome existing criticisms and to provide some suggestions on how to enhance universities' performances, we thought of education as a process with inputs, outputs, and relevant dependencies. We based our research on a smart-city-like model due to the fact that next generation networks and relevant services are going to be more and more integrated with existing infrastructure and information management systems. Thus, it is mandatory that smart solutions are the most prominent assets of modern university environments, to improve the effectiveness of higher education. We called such a university a "smarter university" in which knowledge is a common heritage of teachers and students. In this paper, we report experimental results from a specific case study of collaboration between industry and university, which could be used as a reference for the definition of patterns to be applied in the redesign of the current education systems, even tough it is referred to a technological application scenario.

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“…Modern collaborative environments in higher education are responding to many of the same opportunities as industry, including the increasing application of smart technologies, such as cloud computing for software distribution and usage and the adoption of collaborative paradigms and environments that leverage the work of student teams just as they do software development teams in industry [6]. In professionbased learning and outcomes-based education, collaboration is both a teaching strategy and a learning outcome; in both public institutions and large organizations, the ability to work together is critical to successful software engineering [8,9]. The application of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) to software engineering has been the subject of recent research, including versioning systems with positive results [10].…”

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“…In professionbased learning and outcomes-based education, collaboration is both a teaching strategy and a learning outcome; in both public institutions and large organizations, the ability to work together is critical to successful software engineering [8,9]. The application of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) to software engineering has been the subject of recent research, including versioning systems with positive results [10].…”

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Scaffolding Version Control into the Computer Science Curriculum

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Version control systems (VCS) are widely-used in the software industry. They provide a powerful, collaborative framework that allows software engineers to work together effectively. VCS allow users to track changes and merge ongoing work into concurrently evolving software projects. Distributed VCS such as Git, allow a great degree of flexibility, and provide powerful options for managing personal code and evolving collaborative content. Power incurs responsibility, and introducing collaborative coding and version control tools to new developers can create many challenges. Yet these tools, once mastered, are crucial skills for professional developers. In this paper, the authors introduce VCS to computer science students both in a custom environment specifically designed to support new developers and in a commercially-available native environment suitable for more experienced students. Results show that proper introduction of these powerful tools can make early exposure a positive and valued experience.

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Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in software engineering

Cited by 23 publications

References 6 publications

Teaching Computer Programming Through Hands-on Labs on Cognitive Computing

Teaching Computer Programming Through Hands-on Labs on Cognitive Computing

Teaching Computer Programming in a Platform as a Service Environment

Scaffolding Version Control into the Computer Science Curriculum

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