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Título
VALS: Virtual Alliances for Learning Society
Autor(es)
Materia
Virtual placements
Open Source Software
Collaboration
Semester of Code
Higher Education and Companies alliances
Learning
Clasificación UNESCO
58 Pedagogía
1203.17 Informática
Fecha de publicación
2013-11
Citación
García-Peñalvo, F. J., Álvarez Navia, I., García-Bermejo, J. R., Conde-González, M., García- Holgado, A., Zangrando, V., Seoane-Pardo, A. M., Cruz-Benito, J., Lee, S., Elferink, R., Veenendaal, E., Zondergeld, S., Griffiths, D., Sharples, P., Sherlock, D., de Toni, A. F., Battistella, C., Tonizza, G., de Zan, G., Papadopoulos, G. A., Kapitsaki, G., Achilleos, A. P., Mettouris, C., Cheung, S., Guerrero, Z., He, E., Alier, M., Mayol, E., Casany, M. J., Wilson, S., Wilson, R., Johnson, M. (2013). VALS: Virtual Alliances for Learning Society. In F. J. García-Peñalvo, A. García-Holgado, J. Cruz-Benito (Eds.)., Proceedings of the TEEM’13 Track on Knowledge Society Related Projects , Salamanca, Spain, November 16, 2013, (pp. 19-26). Salamanca, Spain: Grupo GRIAL.
Resumen
[EN] VALS has the aims of establishing sustainable methods and processes to build knowledge partnerships between Higher
Education and companies to collaborate on resolving authentic business problems through open innovation mediated by
the use of Open Source Software. Open Source solutions provide the means whereby educational institutions, students,
businesses and foundations can all collaborate to resolve authentic business problems. Not only Open Software provides
the necessary shared infrastructure and collaborative practice, the foundations that manage the software are also hubs,
which channel the operational challenges of their users through to the people who can solve them. This has great
potential for enabling students and supervisors to collaborate in resolving the problems of businesses, but is constrained
by the lack of support for managing and promoting collaboration across the two sectors. VALS should 1) provide the
methods, practice, documentation and infrastructure to unlock this potential through virtual placements in businesses and
other public and private bodies; and 2) pilot and promote these as the “Semester of Code”. To achieve its goals the
project develops guidance for educational institutions, and for businesses and foundations, detailing the opportunities and
the benefits to be gained from the Semester of Code, and the changes to organisation and practice required. A Virtual
Placement System is going to be developed, adapting Apache Melange, and extending it where necessary. In piloting, the
necessary adaptations to practice will be carried out, particularly in universities, and commitments will be established
between problem owners and applicants for virtual placements.
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ISBN
978-84-616-7041-3
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