Understanding the barriers to virtual student placements in the Semester of Code
Abstract The Semester of Code initiative organised virtual placements for university students around Europe, working on authentic business problems using open source software. The project was welcomed by stakeholders, and many companies and open source foundations became involved. However, the response from students was disappointing. In this paper we examine the reasons for this, discussing the results of the evaluation work carried out. Finally, we consider the implications of our work for student placements and the Knowledge Alliance European Union programme.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RITA.2016.2518461
García-Peñalvo, F. J., Cruz-Benito, J., Griffiths, D., Sharples, P., Willson, S., Johnson, M., Papadopoulos, G. A., Achilleos, A. P., Alier, M., Galanis, N., Conde, M. Á., Pessot, E., Elferink, R., Veenendaal, E., & Lee, S. (2014). Developing Win-Win Solutions for Virtual Placements in Informatics: The VALS Case. In F. J. García-Peñalvo (Ed.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM’14) (pp. 733-738). New York, USA: ACM.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2669711.2669982
García-Peñalvo, F. J., Griffiths, D., Cruz-Benito, J., Veenendaal, E., Achilleos, A., Wilson, S. & Kapitsaki, G. (2015). Report on virtual placements pilots and evaluation of their results - Virtual Alliances for Learning Society (VALS) project & Semester of Code. Salamanca, Spain: Virtual Alliances for Learning Society Project Consortium. University of Salamanca, University of Bolton, Raycomm B.V., University of Cyprus, University of Oxford.
10.6084/m9.figshare.3198691
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00102
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218397.n5
Kaplan, R. S., & Norton, D. P. (1992). The balanced scorecard - Measures that drive performance. Harvard Business Review, 70(1), 71-79.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1932202X15577206
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0013189X031007015
Stroulia, E., Bauer, K., Craig, M., Reid, K., & Wilson, G. (2011). Teaching Distributed Software Engineering with UCOSP: The Undergraduate Capstone Open-Source Project. Proceedings of the 2011 Community Building Workshop on Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development - CTGDSD ’11 (pp. 20-25). New York, NY, USA: ACM.
10.1145/1984665.1984670
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1984665.1984670
Thompson, W. (1889). Electrical Units of Measurement. Popular Lectures and Addresses (Vol. 1, pp. 73-136). London: Macmillan & Co. Zak, P. (2013). Measurement myopia. Retrieved from http://www.druckerinstitute.com/2013/07/measurement-myopia/
García-Peñalvo, F. J., Griffiths, D., Cruz-Benito, J., Veenendaal, E., Achilleos, A., Wilson, S., & Kapitsaki, G. (2016). Understanding the barriers to virtual student placements in the Semester of Code. Education in The Knowledge Society, 17(1), 147–173. https://doi.org/10.14201/eks2016171147173
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