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This paper describes a study that examines the effect of cohesion-based feedback on a team members' behaviors in a global software development project. Chat messages and forum posts were collected from a software development project involving students living in the US and Mexico. Half of the teams in the project received feedback in the form of a graphical representation that displayed the group's...
In Brazil, CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) regulates graduate programs at universities. This agency belongs to the Ministry of Education (MEC) and it is empowered to recommend or discredit graduate courses. Graduate programs are required to coordinate their strategies and actions to comply with the requisites of the evaluation system. This study investigated the...
The incorporation or lack thereof, of sound research data management practices can spell the difference between a successful and unsuccessful research project. This is typically reflected by the quality of the final project outputs. Establishment and sustainability of good institutional research data management practices require an institutional framework that includes policies, infrastructure and...
The e-Learning Academic Network (RAeL) was implemented in the ”1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia (Romania) as a result of this institution's objectives, such as the improvement and the diversification of the educational services within the following context: the existing modern teaching methodology; the policy to encourage studying — not only for young students, but also at any moment throughout...
A remote environment proposed in the paper enables the study electrical drives via the Web. The active learning concept of the distance education and the set of Internet-based laboratory works open the possibility to learn Basic and Advanced Courses of Electrical Drive providing a lot of benefits for both the learners and the faculty. The remote labs for the bachelor and master students are presented...
Corporate software development often takes place within a complex organizational structure, potentially encompassing many individuals. With constant improvements in network and communication technologies, those organizations may be widely distributed through time and space. In computer science and education, group projects are typically included as part of an undergraduate and graduate engineering...
This article will present the experience in the development of an intercontinental collaborative project named “Global Factory”, being the first massive academic exploration of this new way of engineering work. The main goal of the project, was to collaboratively design a virtual factory to produce vehicle combustion engines, by using the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software CATIA V6. It was...
Software development has become increasingly globalized because of technological innovation, the evolution of work and business processes, as well as prevailing educational systems and national policies [1]. This paper addresses the challenges faced when creating realistic opportunities for students to participate in team working on a globally distributed software engineering project. We examine the...
Knowledge management (KM) is essential for success in global software development. Software organizations are now managing knowledge in innovative ways to increase productivity. In agile software development, collaboration and coordination depend on the communication, which is the key to success. To maintain effective collaboration and coordination in distributed agile projects, practitioners need...
This paper presents the review of literatures that shows the contribution of the agile methodology towards teaching and learning environment at university level. Teaching and learning at university has since migrated from traditional learning to active learning methodology where students are expected to learn by doing rather than listening passively to lectures alone. The agile methodology naturally...
Prevalence of Agile methods in software companies is increasing. Software companies need to employ these methods to overcome the inherent challenges of traditional methods. However, transitioning to Agile approach is a topic of debate and needs to be supported by appropriate facilitators. Conducting a large-scale research study, revealed the most important Agile transition facilitators. This paper...
A significant number of software development methods have been published over the last 40 years that purport to be properly based on empirical, adaptive and collaborative development. All suggest, some by name, rapid development; bringing systems to production rapidly and at lower cost. The latest manifestation of these methods is Agile Development. This paper pursues the idea that in normal, everyday...
One of the main weaknesses of the concept of alignment between business and information technology (IT) process and functions in enterprises is that it is abstract, difficult to actualize and harder to sustain. The misalignment between business and IT can be attributed to many factors. Two key factors that stand out are the knowledge and cultural gaps between these functions and the perception that...
In the following work we analyze how the negotiation support systems could assist the parties in reaching an integrative agreement. It is analyzed if the electronic systems could enable overcoming the problem of insufficient information and with it, imperfect solution. The same would be the case in eliminating human error and extending the negotiators' limited calculation possibilities. The number...
With the prosperity of the Open Source Software, various software communities are formed and they attract huge amounts of developers to participate in distributed software development. For such software development paradigm, how to evaluate the skills of the developers comprehensively and automatically is critical. However, most of the existing researches assess the developers based on the Implementation...
Student Response Systems exhibit a long usage history, begun with clickers and recently evolved toward Web-based systems. Several studies show that they improve students' engagement and participation, but also show some drawbacks (clickers costs, distraction and equity in Web-based systems). In this paper, we present our implementation of a Student Response System integrated within a collaborative...
Instructional scaffolding or simply known as scaffolding in education is defined as a guidance or support from teachers, instructors or other knowledgeable persons that facilitate students to achieve their goals in learning. Conceptually, scaffolding means providing students with instructions during the early stage of learning before slowly shifting the responsibility to them as they develop their...
The importance of planning and management skills in software development is very difficult to convey in software engineering courses. We present the synopsis of an assignment whose purpose is to demonstrate the significance of such skills, including effective communication, team coordination and collaboration, and overall project planning. The assignment is organized in the context of a distributed...
Studio-based learning for software engineering is a well-received concept, despite its apparent lack of uptake across institutions worldwide. Studio education affords a variety of highly desirable benefits, and is also popular amongst its students. This paper presents Lancaster University's software engineering studio, details of its implementation, observations made throughout its first year, evidence...
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