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Learning by Tracking - Distributed Systems in Education

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2016 Workshops (OTM 2016)

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Teaching distributed systems means to force the understanding of complexity and heterogeneity from different perspectives. The wide spectrum of legacy techniques and standards as well as up-to-date technology and future ideas is quite challenging. Learning science promises that personal experiences result in a deeper knowledge of problems and solutions in the field of distributed systems. For that we design a show case, managing a relay run (marathon) using android smartphones as relay batons and a web based infrastructure for data management. Whereas the system represents a quite small example it shows different problems, e.g., sensor data, energy management or evolution of smartphone operating systems or software development tools. Being part of the project, e.g. producing the tracking data as runner with an smartphone, students see the impact of own development steps made before. Also they can analyze their own sensor data after a run. Thus they are able to transfer this knowledge to integration or development projects in real enterprise scenarios.

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    Technische Hochschule Brandenburg - University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg.

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  1. TH Brandenburg, University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburger Str. 50, 14770, Brandenburg/Havel, Germany

    Michael Höding

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  1. University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Ioana Ciuciu

  2. ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Christophe Debruyne

  3. University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  4. Profactor GmbH and Johannes Kepler, University Linz, Linz, Austria

    Georg Weichhart

  5. Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Peter Bollen

  6. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Anna Fensel

  7. Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela

    Maria-Esther Vidal

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Höding, M. (2017). Learning by Tracking - Distributed Systems in Education. In: Ciuciu, I., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2016 Workshops. OTM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55961-2_30

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