The emergence of GitHub as a collaborative platform for education

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1906-1917

  Zagalsky, Alexey ^a   Feliciano, Joseph ^a   Storey, Margaret Anne ^a   Zhao, Yiyun ^a   Wang, Weiliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CSCL; CSCW; Distributed Version Control; Education; GitHub; Learning; Qualitative Methodology; Social Media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; EDUCATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TEACHING;

CSCL; CSCW; DISTRIBUTED VERSION CONTROLS; GITHUB; LEARNING; QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGIES; SOCIAL MEDIA;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84949528702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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