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

[Mel Chua]

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...