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In addition to technical skills, software engineers in the twenty-first century need to learn distributed project management and intercultural skills to collaborate effectively in international teams. Innovative, inquiry-based teaching methods combined with smart technologies can provide an effective method to teach students these skills, without leaving their home universities. A series of cooperative, distributed virtual courses conducted by universities in Japan, Germany, and Sri Lanka are presented. The implementation of smart e-learning courses which make use of context- and project-based learning, collaborative learning and teaching with video conferencing, e-learning systems and cloud-based platforms are described. As sociotechnical systems, these courses are evaluated according smart education principles, such as adaptation, sensing, inference, anticipation, self-learning, and self-organization.
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This work was supported by the Ritsumeikan University, the Technical University of Nuernberg Georg Simon Ohm and a grant from the Staedtler Stiftung for the research project “DiaMINT”.
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Marutschke, D.M., Kryssanov, V., Chaminda, H.T., Brockmann, P. (2019). Smart Education in an Interconnected World: Virtual, Collaborative, Project-Based Courses to Teach Global Software Engineering. In: Uskov, V., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Smart Education and e-Learning 2019. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 144. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8260-4_4
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