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Web-based teamwork: Distributed software development course under Covid-19
Rui ZHANG (Zhang, R.); Pedro Mestre (Mestre, P); Carlos Serodio (Serodio, C.); Marília Prada (Prada, M.); Wenjuan GAO (Gao, W.);
2020 15th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE)
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2020
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English
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United States of America
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Abstract
In a increasingly globalized world, it is very important to help students to acquire the hard and soft skills needed to cope with the challenges they will face when working in such environments. However, even though students find this subject interesting and volunteer for it, it is hard, even impossible to teach college students such a distributed fashion of teamwork. In this paper, a case study is provided to illustrate the methodology and experiences of a joint course, distributed software development, of multiple universities from Asia, Europe, North and South Americas. The results show that student can get the spirit, effective communication for such web-based teamwork environment and achieve software project development. The recent developments because of the Covid-19 pandemic are the facts that now students have to cooperate remotely with each other not only across continents but also inside their own city or country. It has increased the awareness of the need for this kind of training and effectively improved the interactions between team elements in different countries and improved the students' feeling of belonging to their team.
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POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 Comissão Europeia
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006958 Comissão Europeia
UID/CEC/00319/2013 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
UID/AGR/04033/201 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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