[TOS] What's the most helpful literature review I can do for y'all?

Ralph Morelli ralph.morelli at trincoll.edu
Tue Sep 27 13:47:36 UTC 2011


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 <mel at purdue.edu> 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...
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