Exploring the communication behaviour among global software development learners

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-215

  Serçe, Fatma Cemile ^a   Swigger, Kathleen M ^b   Alpaslan, Ferda Nur ^c   Brazile, Robert ^b   Dafoulas, George ^d   Lopez Cabrera, Victor ^e  

^a ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PANAMÁ   (Panama)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Distributed learning; E learning; Global software development

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; E-LEARNING;

CODING SCHEME; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79952904130     PISSN: 09528091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2011.039141     Document Type: Article

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