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Sabine Wojcieszak’s Working in and with Free Open Source Software Course
Monday, March 5, 2018 Sabine Wojcieszak, (Bologna POSSE July 2017), just published a blog post on her experiences offering a course tiled “Working in and with Free Open Source Software”. She describes her class and how she mastered being “productively lost”. Great job Sabine!! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/being-productively-lost-experiment-teaching-open-tos-wojcieszak/Red Hat Honors Instructors Who Champion Open Source Education
Thursday, March 1, 2018 For the second year, Red Hat is honoring the work of higher education instructors who are committed to teaching the open source development process to their students. The majority of honorees are past participants in Professor’s Open Source Software Experience (POSSE). Launched by Red ...Next POSSE in Philly — applications open!
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
The next POSSE workshop will be held June 18-20 at Drexel, in Philadelphia PA. For more info and application instructions: http://foss2serve.org/index.php/POSSE_2018-06. Applications are due April 6.
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TOS Happenings at SIGCSE!
Saturday, February 17, 2018 If you’ll be at SIGSE, make sure to attend these Teaching Open Source-related sessions (use this quicklink while you’re there for easy reference: bit.ly/TOS-SIGCSE) Time: Thursday 10am Activity: Demo Session #1 Title: Teaching “Blinky Flashy”: Best Practices and Helpful Tips for Teaching eTextiles to a Wide Range of Students Location: Exhibit Hall Speaker(s): ...Jody Paul Teaches Software Engineering Practices
Sunday, February 4, 2018 Jody Paul (2017-11 POSSE alum) relates his experiences in the first two weeks of teaching 2 sections of Software Engineering Practices. We hope to hear more from Jody as the course progresses! “I’m the instructor for 2 sections of Software Engineering Practices, a senior experience/project course ...POSSE 2017-11
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Another successful POSSE was held November 16-18, 2017 at Red Hat headquarters in Raleigh. Twelve new faculty members joined three POSSE alums (Josh Dehlinger, Robert Duvall, Howard Francis), four facilitators (Darci Burdge, Clif Kussmaul, Greg Hislop, and Heidi Ellis) and Gina Likins (of Red Hat’s University Outreach ...
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Some Tech Firm Perspectives on Hiring
by Greg Hislop on December 29, 2017 at 4:53 pm
I recently attended a meeting with local tech companies to discuss the talent pipeline in this region, how they were […]
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Open Source and Plagiarism: What do we Teach Students?
by Greg Hislop on December 26, 2017 at 1:49 pm
Some members of our HFOSS team recently submitted a proposal for a discussion session at a computer science education […]
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Encouraging Participation
by Heidi Ellis on September 12, 2017 at 9:07 pm
I’m currently at the Open Source Summit in LA and I’ve been reflecting on our progress so far in our […]
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Getting Started….
by Heidi Ellis on September 1, 2017 at 11:39 am
This first week has been an adjustment week for all of us. My Freshman Seminar class (2 sections) meets twice a week […]
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On an Adventure
by Heidi Ellis on August 28, 2017 at 12:30 pm
Today I’m starting on an adventure. I’m teaching two sections of Freshman Seminar using Open Organization […]
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Course Prep: Open Educational Materials Grant Proposal
by Karl R. Wurst on June 16, 2017 at 12:59 am
The Worcester State University Library has called for proposals for Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) […]
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