FOSS in undergraduate education
summary
An undergraduate CS program called Calum replaces first-year theory and unrelated courses with project work on GitHub, continuous assessments every 3–4 weeks, and industry-trained staff doing day-to-day code reviews on campus. Pilots at three locations report real-world dev practices in 6 months, removal of synchronous lectures, and students being 75–80% less bored when learning is self-directed. Curriculum is being released under CC and course material through calum.community is already public up to semester three.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:26Speaker background
- 1:52Redesigning CS education
- 3:20Gaps in traditional CS
- 4:43Curriculum redesign first semester
- 6:31Integrating real-world skills
- 8:41Program results
- 10:49Soft skills and compounding learning
- 11:31Open source collaboration
- 12:15College collaboration
- 13:21Open curriculum model
- 14:27Digital assessments
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