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The Open Source Courseware project (OSCu) is aimed at cooperative course development and implementation in university software-engineering education. Open materials and a distributed course implementation model offer effective means for knowledge sharing between universities. However, in practice there are many difficulties in managing distributed courses and the actual cooperation scheme. This article presents the major problems faced in the first four distributed courses, and the approaches that were developed and which are now used to deal with them.
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Ala-Mutka, K., Räisänen, SM. (2005). Managing Distributed University Courses. In: Nicholson, P., Ruohonen, M., Thompson, J.B., Multisilta, J. (eds) E-Training Practices for Professional Organizations. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 167. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23572-8_22
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