Software Engineering Students' Cross-site Collaboration: An Experience Report
Sarah Drummond, Marie Devlin · 2006
This paper outlines preliminary work which is part of the Active Learning in Computing project at Durham University and the University of Newcastle. The aim of the work was to investigate the feasibility of students ' projects being developed across sites. This work allowed students to utilise the expertise from their site's Software Engineering (SE) modules and provided strategic coupling of cross-site student groups. The activity investigated the suitability of projects, the technology to support collaboration across sites and the interest and fears of students. Our initial experiences tell us that cross-site working emulates industrial practice well and is, therefore, very beneficial to students in terms of their employability. The assessment requirements of a university and our necessity for quality assurance require that we constantly need to monitor the students ’ outcomes.