Enforcing Team Cooperation: an example of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in Software Engineering

In this paper the OTRE experience is presented, as a case study in a larger project named Enforcing Team Cooperation (ETC). Cooperation is one of the keywords in education and in computer assisted instruction, and thus e-learning platforms provide users with specific tools, enabling them to collaborate and/or to cooperate to reach a common objective. Collaboration is considered as a teaching strategy but, in software engineering classes, it has to be a learning outcome too, since students must acquire ability in team working. A specific working environment is needed and the authors propose an experimental set-up based on the Eclipse and Jazz technologies.