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标题：Experiences with Distributed Open Source Courses
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作者：Kirsti Ala-Mutka ; Tommi Mikkonen
期刊名称：Informatica
印刷版ISSN：1514-8327
电子版ISSN：1854-3871
出版年度：2003
卷号：27
期号：3
页码：243-254
出版社：The Slovene Society Informatika, Ljubljana
摘要：The field of information technology extends continuously. In universities, the challenge is to manage increasingly large student groups, while at the same time the teachers need to use a lot of time in developing new IT courses and updating the old courses. Unfortunately, many universities face the lack of teaching resources to deal with the situation. To address these problems, we have started an Open Source Courseware (OSCu) project. The fundamental goal of the project is to increase cooperation between universities in course development. In this project, we produce open course materials, and use these materials for distributing courses to several universities. The distributed course model offers universities an easy and inexpensive way to broaden their course selection and to distribute knowledge between teaching personnel from different universities. This paper introduces the principles of the course material production and the distributed course organization in the OSCu project. We also discuss the issues identified when planning and implementing our first course according these principles during spring 2002
关键词：university education; distributed course organization; course material reusability