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

In this paper it is presented an example of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), the OTRE experience, as a case study in a larger cooperation projects named ETC (Enforcing Team Cooperation). Collaboration is one of the keywords in education and in computer assisted instruction so that e-learning platforms provide users with specific tools, enabling them to collaborate and/or cooperate so to be able to reach a common objective. Collaboration is considered as a teaching strategy but, in many cases, such as in software engineering classes, collaboration has to be a learning outcome itself, since students must acquire ability in team working. A specific working environment is needed, that has to be much more then just a Learning Management Systems. The authors propose an experimental set-up based on the Eclipse and Jazz technologies.