Hi Mel, Sounds good:
+1 for * open source computing education * open source and education -- ralph On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got to do a literature review for class by 11/1, and can pick any > topic. Right now I'm looking at "teaching open source" as a topic, but am > guessing that's not an optionally worded phrase. Other options: > > * open source and education > * sociology of open source > * online communities of practice > * authentic learning experiences online > * distributed collaboration > * open source computing education > * faculty workshop (design and evaluation) > * institutional resistance to change -- paradigm shifts (Kuhn) with respect > to curricular revisions > > Any particular terms or foci that would be useful for people here? Please > feel free to shamelessly use the work I'm going to have to do anyway; I > would *love* for this to be useful to people other than myself. > > For reference, I'm planning on doing my research on the effects of open > source community participation on undergraduate student learning, using the > communities of practice framework as a lens to examine growth in student > learning along several axes (student perceptions and self-evaluations of > confidence and technical skill, "productivity"[0], views of software > engineering/computing as a discipline[1] global awareness, etc).[2] But this > is my 4th week of grad school, mind you, so this is all incredibly subject > to evolution. > > --Mel > > [0] I realize this is a hotly contested topic and don't plan on counting > lines of code and being done with it, mind you. > > [1] For both majors and non-majors. > > [2] And yes, this describes WAY too much work for me to actually take on > during grad school, I've been here less than a month, I'm working on > narrowing it down... > ______________________________**_________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.**teachingopensource.org/**mailman/listinfo/tos<http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos> >
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