Building courses for the training in Jazz: which educational resources for the future?

Abstract

Jazz is one of the most widely used platforms in the world for the development of collaborative software made by IBM. The formation of a group that learns in a collaborative way needs of innovative teaching resources. The book covers only a small percentage of that training act. What else give interest? Probably a balanced use of visual, kinesthetic and textual resources must be properly balanced. This work is about the experience of Jazz-Hub project and the need to build these learning resources for students of a software engineering course at the Faculty of Engineering of the University Federico II.

Keywords

• collaboration
• e-learning
• learning models
• community of practice
• cooperation