Hi Alexander,

For the university experience, I would mention the experiences of our M.S. program at San Francisco State University (SFSU), since the contents include Distributed and Collaborative software Engineering in Education, you could check a group at Java.net, where a growing number of universities are joining...

https://distributedcollaboration.dev.java.net/

Last semester we had a class format at SFSU, part of a nice project with undergrad and graduate students from other Florida, California and Germany... All was using only open-source tools...

The motivations behind this class is that the instructors (Software Engineer Professors) would play the role of CEOs or CTOs, and divide the classes into teams that may compete to develop the same tool or different modules to a given tool... It would have to take into account if students are undergraduate or graduate students for that matter, but the classes would basically cover the core of Software Engineering and life-cycle management, etc... Different instructors have introduced different approaches... One of the students has wrapped up his M.S. thesis on this subject as well...

I'm a M.S. student who was a team learder for PPM (http://ppm.dev.java.net), part of group 8 (http://ppm-8.dev.java.net) and I can say that this was a very interesting approach to learn and experience what the real world is... I think the motivations can very, different students with real-world experience could share a lot on this format, but I would blend important research papers as well (including the Cathedral & the Bazar for example, among others)... That could drive the motivations on the OSS community... I wish I could have done my undergraduate Software Engineering class using such type of approach...

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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Bruce Mathew <brucemathew@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear friend

Please also include Opensource Software usage in research along with your stuff.

Bruce mathew
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Pia Waugh <greebo@pipka.org> wrote:

Hi Alexander,

<quote who="Alexander.Trubin@sun.com">

> I'm now preparing for a talk at Urals State Technical University
> (Russia) about OpenSource usage in Higher Education,
> so if anyone have some thoughts about what should be covered in this
> broad topic your help would be greatly appreciated.

I was involved in a research project which looked at this in Australia:

http://ask-oss.mq.edu.au/

There are loads of both case studies, and links to OSS in HE all around the
world.

Also, check out the UK equivalent (although, they are much more awesome than
ASK-OSS :)

http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/

Good luck!

Cheers,
Pia

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