The course will be co-taught between the IT University of Copenhagen and the Indian Institute of Technology in Mandi. This provides a unique opportunity for mixing traditional lectures with web-based learning activities and group work crossing national – and even continental - borders.

The lectures will be a mixture of real-time lectures and web-based lectures currently planned as follows: about one third of the lectures will be made available as short e-lectures via the course management system learnIT; that is they can be ‘attended’ on-line at a time that suites the student. The other lectures will be presented in real time as class room lecturers and transmitted via Adobe Connect or life streamed to the other location (at the moment we plan for one lecture to take place in Mandi and be transmitted to Copenhagen, and the others to be transmitted from Copenhagen to Mandi).

Alongside the lectures, the learning activities are centered on groups working as a project team for a chosen software development case. The groups will be formed of both India and Denmark based students, and a supervisor will be assigned to each group. Supervision takes place in form of online meetings once a week.

The course uses the course management system, learnIT, as shared course
platform and shareIT will be available for group spaces and group work. You will be further informed on these systems during the first class.

The groups shall develop a number of documents in relation to their product case during the course, including
- a project charter;
- an initial analysis, including a mock-up of the product to be developed;
- a requirements specification;
- a configuration management plan;
- a quality assurance plan;
- a system test specification;
- an overall architecture specification.

The documents constitute the group portfolio to be handed in as the basis for the examination.

Note, that due to the fact that the Indian and the Danish terms are not completely aligned, the course will be slightly compressed in relation to a standard course. The course will start on the 1st of September and the last lecture will be in on the 17th of November with the hand-in due on the 23rd of November. This means that 2 lectures will be held on Saturdays, currently we plan for one on the 10th of September and one on the 8th of October – both of these are real-time lectures provided in Copenhagen and transmitted to Mandi. 

The examination will be based on the group portfolio described under 'Learning activities'. Examination type is oral exam without preparation (B4). The exam time will be 30 minutes per student.