The course will be a mixture of lectures, assignments, practices with technology mediation, discussions, student presentations, and group work with supervision.

There will be readings for each lecture - typically 1-2 research papers or chapters. The students are required to read the papers prior to the lectures.
The course also has Exploratory Exercises, which will focus on particular topics such as cultural diversity, global spaces and places, virtual negotiation, and cross-cultural communication.

The students will be assigned to groups (5 in each), where they choose one of the four pre-defined cases of global interaction: Global healthcare; Global Engineering, Global Software Development; Global Fashion. Each pre-defined case will be available as a 1-page description and will be describing a case of global interaction in a particular domain. The objective of the groups are two-folded 1) that the students through the semester use the group and the case to discuss the theoretical CSCW concepts to train how to explain and argue for how to organize, execute, and manage the case of global interaction as well as how to design collaborative technologies relevant for the case, and 2) that the groups collaboratively write a mandatory assignment in the middle of the semester as a test for the final written exam.
The course is organized so that the students will see all the exam questions in the beginning of the course, and we will answer them together throughout the course during the relevant lectures, where we are working with these. Each lecture will be focused on one or more of the questions. So students will know all questions in advance of the exam (the formulation of the questions might be different at the final exam, but the content will be the same). In the groups students work on the questions during the exercises writing in a shared google document to ensure they practice written reflections.
In the middle of the course the students will be ask to turn in a 1 page mandatory written assignment in groups, where they will choose to answer two questions out of three provided. All questions will be from the list of known questions, and both will have been part of the lectures prior to the mandatory assignment. They will have one week to turn in the assignment, and they will have one dedicate 4-hours slot to work on the assignment. The assignment is supposed to be max 2 pages pr group.
Planned guest lecture from Industry on global project management
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Information about study structure
SDT
This course is mandatory for students admitted on the Software Engineering track on SDT. Find the track described here:
SDT study structure

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DDK
This course is part of the DDK specialization Global IT and Organizations - find it described here:
DDK specializations

Se hvordan undervisningen er tilrettelagt her:
link til skemaoplysninger
Skemaoplysningerne vil være tilgængelige fra kort før semesterstart.

See the schedule here:
link to the time table
The schedule will be available shortly before the beginning of the term. 

The exam language is English and must be written in English.

The exam will be a 2-hours written exam.
At the exam the students will individually be asked to answer three specific asked questions out of the total list of the 12 known questions related to one self-selected case out of the four used in the course (Global healthcare; Global Engineering, Global Software Development; Global Fashion). The student will not know in advance which questions will be asked at the exam.

During this course students will be required to hand in mandatory assignments (e.g. attendance, papers, exercises, presentations, productions), that need to be completed/approved before being eligible to register for the examination and e.g. being allowed to submit written work for examination. Failure to hand in these mandatory assignments on time will mean that the registration for examination is annulled.

These mandatory assignments are (Deadlines are posted separately, e.g. on the course blog):
* 1 written assignment in groups
* participate actively in group discussions
* participate in 1 group paper presentation according to the criteria set up for the learning activity

Submission/completion of mandatory activities before Friday 2. December 2011 at 15:00.