Engaging students in free and open source (FOSS) projects is educationally rewarding but is challenging for students and faculty. We aim to ease student engagement in FOSS by developing education-oriented H/FOSS (Humanitarian FOSS or FOSS) projects that are intentionally designed with student engagement in mind. This paper reports on our experience with four different education-oriented H/FOSS projects that support different modes of engagement, provides a framework for reasoning about these different engagement models, and uses this framework to explore the advantages and disadvantages that different engagement models afford.
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15:45 25mPaper | A Social Threat Modeling Framework to Structure Teaching about Responsible ComputingIn-Person Papers DOI | ||
16:10 25mPaper | Engagement Models in Education-Oriented H/FOSS ProjectsIn-Person Papers Grant Braught Dickinson College, Steven Huss-Lederman Open Energy Dashboard, Stoney Jackson Western New England University, Wes Turner Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Karl Wurst Worcester State University DOI | ||
16:35 25mPaper | Humanitarian applications increase interest and motivation of women in computingIn-Person Papers Lori Postner Nassau Community College, Gregory W. Hislop Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Heidi J.C. Ellis Western New England University, Springfield, MA, USA DOI | ||