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

Hi Mel,

Sounds good:

+1 for
* open source computing education
* open source and education

-- ralph

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Mel Chua <mel@purdue.edu> wrote:

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...
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