3.1 Teaching Information

Die Open-Source-Forschungsgruppe, Teil der Forschungs- und Lehrallianz Praktische Softwaretechnik der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, arbeitet anwendungsbezogen und industrienah. Insbesondere binden wir gern Industrieunternehmen in unsere Lehre ein, um Studierende soweit wie mögli...

Available as the PSWT Teaching 2013 PDF file.

The new semester is off to a good start and our courses, like those of many other professors, are seeing new and unprecedented levels of computer science and related students! Good times are returning, hopefully!

Most of our courses are graded following a simple pattern as described below. (If a link from a module description in UnivIS led you to this page then that module will be graded according to these rules.) Most courses require contributions in class as well as work outside of class (self-study...

We just finished an updated summary of our (PSWT / OSR) teaching description. Enjoy!

Our main courses for WS 2012/13 are: Praktische Softwaretechnik (PSWT), StudOn, impressions from prior instances Software Architecture (ARCH), StudOn, impressions from prior instances Nailing your Thesis (NYT), StudOn, impressions from prior instances New course this semester! A...

Some students prepare for exams by using the lecture slides only. This is highly problematic on many accounts and a recipe for failure in an exam. First, a good course has a clear learning objective; the extent to which you achieved that objective is measured in an exam, be it oral or written. Th...

If you intend to take AMOS in SS 2012 please take this survey. It will remain open until the last week before the semester starts. Please register for AMOS or PROD on StudOn as soon as possible. Both classes are oversubscribed. If you got "wait-listed" it doesn't mean you won't get in. We will ma...

Should we teach in English or German? Or both? But then, which class in which language? This question is at the center of an on-going debate, and it is a hard question to answer. Here is how the Open Source Research (and Teaching) Group is looking at the situation. The fundamental assumption i...

Today, a colleague confided in me: "Dirk, if I were a student, I wouldn't attend your classes. I never liked to speak up and would rather cram for an exam at the end of the semester rather than open my mouth in class." Well, that was quite the bummer. However: We teach to make the most of ...