FLOSS '07 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development
Meta-design: expanding boundaries and redistributing control in design
INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction
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This paper presents the results after four years of running of an instructional method that utilizes free/libre open source software (FLOSS) projects as tools for teaching software engineering in formal education. In the last four academic years, a total of 408 juniors majoring in Informatics (in a 4-year program) participated in the study, assuming the roles of requirements engineers, testers, developers, and designers/analysts. Students appreciated the benefits gained by the method and identified aspects that require further improvement. In the paper, we present (a) the details of our method, (b) students' opinions as recorded through a questionnaire including both closed and open ended questions, and (c) conclusions on how the use of FLOSS projects can be applied, and be beneficial for the students.