Integrating globally distributed team projects into software engineering courses

Author

Case, Steven ; Schneider, Sherry K. ; White, Laura J. ; Kass, Steven J. ; Manning, Kelly ; Wilde, Norman

Author_Institution

Univ. of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA

fYear

2013

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

29

Abstract

This paper describes a research program on the introduction of globally distributed teams into undergraduate software engineering courses. A pilot study, now completed, involved students at a single institution using two different virtual environments while cooperatively developing requirements artifacts in 3-person virtual teams. We describe the results of this pilot study and the plans for its extension to a three-year multi-institution, multi-culture, and multi-language setting.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; software engineering; 3-person virtual teams; globally distributed team projects; multiculture; multilanguage setting; three-year multiinstitution; undergraduate software engineering courses; virtual environments; Avatars; Cultural differences; Education; Organizations; Software; Software engineering; Virtual groups; Globally distributed software development student projects; virtual team projects; virtual teams;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development (CTGDSD), 2013 3rd International Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTGDSD.2013.6635242

Filename

6635242