Heidi Ellis

309 points

Western New England University

Heidi Ellis is Professor and Chair of the Computer Science and Information Technology department at Western New England University. She has a long-time interest in computing education and has been supporting student participation in open source software since 2006. Heidi also writes about students and open source at http://heidiellis.wordpress.com/

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Student participation in open source projects (A professor's perspective)

I must start by thanking Mel Chua for visiting us in Connecticut and for prompting/prodding me to think more deeply about how open source and academia work together to…

Authored Comments

Heidi JC Ellis

25 Nov 2018

Give your students edit access to their course syllabus

I've got a list of things I'll do differently next time, but I think that the big takeaway was how empowered the students felt. I'd like to think that empowerment leads to engagement. It was fun!

Heidi JC Ellis

29 Sep 2016

5 reasons professors should encourage students to get involved in open source projects

I'm glad that you enjoyed the article. We have had success with OpenMRS, Ushahidi and the GNOME Accessibility tools. You might also check Openhatch.org as there is a list of bugs there, although I'm not sure how current it is.