Students as Partners in a Multi-Media Note-Taking App Development: Bes

This paper summarises some of the best practices learned from an extended software engineering project completed through a collaboration of multidisciplinary faculty and several teams of computer science students. The collaboration delivered an advanced multimedia note-taking application, as an open educational resource (OER), capable of supporting both students and research into note-making practices. The project lasted beyond a single academic year, thus enabling multiple student cohort participation, and took place in an English medium of instruction, Sino-foreign university in China. The experiences and reflections surrounding the project were examined, with a number of resulting ideas for best practices.