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Introducing Problem-Based Learning in a Joint Masters Degree: Offshoring Information Technologies

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Innovations and Advances in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, Networking and Engineering

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 313))

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A young offshore software industry has grown up in Morocco. The University of Brest has set up a network of major software companies and Moroccan universities, providing two mobility schemes towards France. Both schemes include a final internship on the French side of global companies, with pre-employment on the Moroccan side—a successful internship being the key that opens the door to recruitment. Student heterogeneity, and student reluctance to move towards a professional attitude are important barriers to employability. Hence, we redesigned a significant proportion of our technical courses to use a problem-based learning (PBL) approach. The PBL approach is illustrated through drawing parallels with the production of a TV series. Three aspects of the approach are presented: (1) set-up of the studio in which sessions are run, i.e. a real software project, its work products and its software development environment; (2) pre-production tasks including the screenwriting of problem-based learning scenarios and the procurement of input artefacts; and (3) acting, i.e. students’ interpretation of characters (roles) and teacher direction.

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  1. Laboratoire en Sciences et Techniques de l’Information, Université de Brest, UEB, LabSTICC, Brest, France

    Vincent Ribaud & Philippe Saliou

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  1. Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

    Tarek Sobh

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    Khaled Elleithy

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Ribaud, V., Saliou, P. (2015). Introducing Problem-Based Learning in a Joint Masters Degree: Offshoring Information Technologies. In: Sobh, T., Elleithy, K. (eds) Innovations and Advances in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, Networking and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 313. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06773-5_42

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