OpenSE project Kickoff meeting @ URJC

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow the OpenSE project kickoff meeting is taking place at URJC, Móstoles campus.

OpenSE (an open participatory learning ecosystem for Software Engineering courses) is a Lifelong Learning/Erasmus Programme cooperation action for European HEIs which will explore the possibilities of new techniques in knowledge creation and knowledge sharing processes in a framework for Software Engineering teaching.

The partners involved are:

• Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação, SA Porto, Portugal
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
• Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain
• EducOOo, Audincourt, France
• Stichting Free Knowledge Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• University of Maastricht / UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands
• University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
• The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
• IBM Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
  

OpenSE

"Traditionally, in closed formal education, students cannot fully
benefit from and build upon the achievements of previous student
cohorts or firms and learners outside of the institution. Similarly,
learners outside traditional educational institutions cannot benefit
from students’ learning processes and outcomes inside these
institutions. In contrast, the Web 2.0 offers opportunities for open
and inclusive education. Open Source communities, for example, have
proven that volunteer collaboration can outperform traditional ways of
knowledge creation and sharing, which are the cornerstones of
innovativeness. A reasonable way to better exploit these opportunities
is applying the principles of open participatory learning to existing
training courses. This appears particularly appropriate for Computer
Science, as only in this field the approach can directly build upon the
achievements of the global open source community. We therefore propose
an Open Educational Framework for Software Engineering - openSE. openSE
brings together HEIs, formally enrolled students, fellow students, free
learners outside of formal education, open source practitioners and
enterprises. The novelty of the openSE project is that it
systematically combines formal and informal learning within an
unfettered informal learning environment. openSE will stimulate
participatory learning experiences, involving practical ‘hands-on’
sessions where learning activities and output become a learning
resource itself. OpenSE thus enables future learners to benefit
continuously and fully from others' achievements, regardless where
these achievements have been made. A deeper understanding of
educational settings that integrate formal education with expert driven
communities will help developing new educational scenarios that unfold
the opportunities the web provides and goes beyond software
engineering. It will strengthen the linkage between education and
business and increase the speed of innovation."

URJC @ OpenSE

"URJC will contribute to the project its experience on Open Source
engineering and development of tools for supporting the openSE hybrid
framework. URJC will further contribute its general know-how and
contacts acquired thanks to its international experience in the design
of a general corpus of knowledge that can be used to implement libre
software projects, incl. current works with the Mozilla Foundation.
URJC will bring in its students population from its current master
courses on free and open source software. URJC will be the lead partner
of the openSE technical support framework (WP4) and provide as well a
assistant for technical support as one teaching assistant who will act
as online support provider and course / learning facilitator."