TY - GEN
T1 - The emergence of GitHub as a collaborative platform for education
AU - Zagalsky, Alexey
AU - Feliciano, Joseph
AU - Storey, Margaret Anne
AU - Zhao, Yiyun
AU - Wang, Weiliang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/2/28
Y1 - 2015/2/28
N2 - The software development community has embraced GitHub as an essential platform for managing their software projects. GitHub has created efficiencies and helped improve the way software professionals work. It not only provides a traceable project repository, but it acts as a social meeting place for interested parties, supporting communities of practice. Recently, educators have seen the potential in GitHub's collaborative features for managing and improving-perhaps even transforming-The learning experience. In this study, we examine how GitHub is emerging as a collaborative platform for education. We aim to understand how environments such as GitHub-environments that provide social and collaborative features in conjunction with distributed version control-may improve (or possibly hinder) the educational experience for students and teachers. We conduct a qualitative study focusing on how GitHub is being used in education, and the motivations, benefits and challenges it brings.
AB - The software development community has embraced GitHub as an essential platform for managing their software projects. GitHub has created efficiencies and helped improve the way software professionals work. It not only provides a traceable project repository, but it acts as a social meeting place for interested parties, supporting communities of practice. Recently, educators have seen the potential in GitHub's collaborative features for managing and improving-perhaps even transforming-The learning experience. In this study, we examine how GitHub is emerging as a collaborative platform for education. We aim to understand how environments such as GitHub-environments that provide social and collaborative features in conjunction with distributed version control-may improve (or possibly hinder) the educational experience for students and teachers. We conduct a qualitative study focusing on how GitHub is being used in education, and the motivations, benefits and challenges it brings.
KW - CSCL
KW - CSCW
KW - Distributed Version Control
KW - Education
KW - GitHub
KW - Learning
KW - Qualitative Methodology
KW - Social Media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84949528702&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2675133.2675284
DO - 10.1145/2675133.2675284
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AN - SCOPUS:84949528702
T3 - CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
SP - 1906
EP - 1917
BT - CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015
Y2 - 14 March 2015 through 18 March 2015
ER -