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Ten tips to succeed in global software engineering education

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Ivica Crnković,

Mario ŽagarAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '12: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering

Pages 1225 - 1234

Published: 02 June 2012 Publication History

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The most effective setting for training in Global Software Engineering is to provide a distributed environment for students. In such an environment, students will meet challenges in recognizing problems first-hand. Teaching in a distributed environment is, however, very demanding, challenging and unpredictable compared to teaching in a local environment. Based on nine years of experience, in this paper we present the most important issues that should be taken into consideration to increase the probability of success in teaching a Global Software Engineering course.

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