In their words: Student feedback on an international project collaboration
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2010
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SIGCSE '10 Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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534 - 538
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In this paper, we describe a collaborative course experience between students from universities in the USA and Turkey. Student teams worked together on a software engineering project for a non-profit organization based in Turkey. The students learned valuable skills in team-work, collaboration-facilitating software tools and working with peers from a different culture and a different time-zone. At the end of the course, in a focus group, students were asked for feedback regarding the course and its outcomes. In this paper, we describe the course from the student perspective. From this, and the instructor's experiences we provide a list of guidelines. Copyright 2010 ACM.
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International collaboration , Software engineering , Teamwork , Focus groups , International collaborations , International projects , Non profit organizations , Software engineering projects , Software tool , Student feedback , Student teams , Team work , Computer science , Computer software , Education computing , Engineering education , International cooperation , Profitability , Software design , Teaching , Students