Project Mainstreaming Issues
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The document discusses issues with mainstreaming the Semester of Code project. It was noted that the different time schedules of universities makes setting a strict timeline difficult. There were also very low numbers of participating students. The plan is to launch a pilot on April 1st with a limited number of organizations and projects to accept potentially low student turnout. If the pilot is successful, the project could be expanded to more universities in the future. Concerns remain about student participation potentially resulting in the project only remaining a theoretical idea.
Project Mainstreaming Issues
- 1. Project Mainstreaming Issues 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA EdwinVeenendaal Raycom BV edwin@raycom.com VALS Meeting, Udine, Italy February 24th, 2015
- 2. What we had in mind • Universities offer a course or practical assignment in the curriculum (starting in September) • The Organising Party has gathered organisations and projects that are in the system • Students sign up starts; Students browse and pick their favourite project • Students write a couple of proposals and compete to get selected • Part of the projects gets done • Organisations are asked for an evaluation form and to participate in the next SOC 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 3. What we have seen • We have seen that the different time schedules, makes it difficult to come up with a very strict timeline • The number of students should be a bit in line with the number of projects • The number of participating students is very low • Perhaps open timeline; for further research 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 4. Todo • Guide for universities • Guide for Organisations • Semester of Code book • Exploitation • Depends on – Promised document from academic site – Evaluation of the organisations – What can we promise for the future? – Will the pilot be a success? – Can we set up an Organisation Party (OSS watch) 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 5. Current situation • RayCom has serious doubts about the success of the project, depending on student participation mainly • è Perhaps theoretical pilot with outcome that SOC is only a nice idea – (Wrapping up the idea and the global timeline and reasons for failure) • èPerhaps a sudden success; new ideas? – (Time is our enemy, 75??) • So we have waited for – Input (evaluations) – Emergency plan – A reasonable chance of success 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 6. What can we expect? • Lots of universities with low numbers each • Continuing enthousiasm from organisations? • We have got a ready system that is relatively easy to set up • Difficult timelines • Student participation problems • Depends on Pilot success as well 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 7. The plan • 1st April, find academics, target tutors, have a few more presentations, a couple of small amendments in the software to facilitate preselection, write evaluation • Accept low student numbers and limit number of orgs/projects • Contact students, tutors with a survey • Statistics out of the system • For the future perhaps: put timeline with foundations/ projects • More universities and contact existing institutes 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 8. The bright side • We have aVPS ready that has run without problems • We have proven an enormous enthousiasm from the company side • People we spoke about the subject were positive about the idea 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 9. Project references • García-Peñalvo, F.J., Álvarez Navia, I., García Bermejo, J.R., Conde González, M.Á., García-Holgado,A., Zangrando,V., Seoane Pardo,A.M., Cruz-Benito, J., Lee, S., Elferink, R.,Veenendaal, E., Zondergeld, S., Griffiths, D., Sharples, P., Sherlock, D., DeToni,A., Battistella, C.,Tonizza, G., De Zan, G., Papadopoulos, G., Kapitsaki, G.,Achilleos,A., Mettouris, C., Cheung, S., Guerrero, Z., He, E.,Alier Forment, M., Mayol, E., Casany, M.J.,Wilson, S., Wilson, R., and Johnson, M., (2013). VALS: Virtual Alliances for Learning Society. In Proceedings of the TEEM Conference 2013.Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (Salamanca, Spain, 14-16 November 2013), GRIAL Research Group. First International Conference onTechnological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM'13), 19-26. • García-Peñalvo, F. J., Cruz-Benito, J., Griffiths, D., Sharples, P.,Wilson, S., Johnson, M., ... & Lee, S. (2014). Developing win-win solutions for virtual placements in informatics: theVALS case. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (pp. 733-738). ACM. • García-Peñalvo, F. J., Cruz-Benito, J., Conde, M. Á., Griffiths, D. (2014)Virtual placements for informatics students in open source business across Europe. In 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings (October 22-25, 2014 Madrid, Spain). (pp. 2551-2555) IEEE. ISBN: 978-1-4799-3921-3. IEEE Catalog Number: CFP14FIE-ART. USB version, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP14FIE-USB. 2014 • García-Peñalvo, F. J., Cruz-Benito, J., Conde, M. Á., & Griffiths, D. (2015). Semester of Code: Piloting Virtual Placements for Informatics across Europe Proceedings of Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2015.Tallinn, Estonia, 18-20 Mach 2015. USA: IEEE 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 10. Project references • García-Peñalvo, F.J. (2014).VALS Project – One year after. Presented in the Thematic Cluster Meeting “Knowledge Alliances” in Brussels at November 7th, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125221 • García-Peñalvo, F.J. (2015). Introducing VALS project and Semester of Code (English version). http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125227 • García-Peñalvo, F.J. (2015). Presentación del proyecto Virtual Alliances for Learning Society (Spanish version). http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125220 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 11. Project Mainstreaming Issues 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA EdwinVeenendaal Raycom BV edwin@raycom.com VALS Meeting, Udine, Italy February 24th, 2015