Hi all, I know a number of you have models at your institutions for this, so I think what I'm asking for are URL pointers.
We have a required senior exercise at Allegheny. http://sites.allegheny.edu/academics/senior-project/ Next term I'll have a 2-week module in our Junior Seminar within the Comp Sci department, and I'd like to put forward a model for the students that they might use to spend a year focusing on participating in open source project. (My thought was to have them do an exercise and some writing involving research into one or more communities that they might contribute to. This conversation/series of exercises would probably consume one of the two weeks. Greg's homework assignment re: researching communities and openhatch.org will probably frame the exercise that I give them.) Currently, many of the students have a very positivist/Popperian model of inquiry because of snippets of projects they typically see earlier in the curriculum -- and as a result, they have a poor foundation for collaboration-centric work. A reasonably well-defined model for FOSS contribution in the senior year as a senior project seems like a nice way for some students to dig into "something different" than what they've seen before. As an FYI, the senior project is only one course equivalent over the span of the year -- that is, 1 CR in the fall and 3 CR in the spring. I'll put my notes re: this up on the TOS wiki when we're done with this thread. I assume there's some things going on at Seneca, Drexel, and/or Western Conn that would fit this model? Any others? (I could do all of the Googling myself, but I thought I'd start by asking instead, because there might be things not found on the web that are important to mention before I proceed with this course of action.) Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
