Teaching portfolio

 Here are the courses I can offer to teach. Courses with a (*) I can also teach as a hands-on or intensive courses with a duration from one day to a week long. If you are interested in these hands-on courses, feel free to invite me (contact). I like to travel and exploring new cultures. The courses with a (+) I can hold with only a little preparation. I try to decrease the amount of classic lecture style classes in my courses to a minimum in favor of active learning methods. Expect a lot of hands on, interaction, and computer usage work in my classes.

• Mobile Computing
  • Mobile Computing – getting started (hello world goes mobile) (*)(+)
  • How to integrate mobile applications into the cloud (+)
  • Building huge mobile systems (+)
  • Mobile game development (+)
• Software Engineering
  • Modeling (*) (+)
  • Visual Programming (*) (+)
  • MDE (*) (+)
  • Agile Software Development (*) (+)
  • Software architecture (+)
  • Web- and cloudservices
• Operating Systems
  • Basics (Filesystems, Threading, Locking)
  • Unix and Linux systems and their friendly co-existence with Windows, Mac OSX – don’t fear the command line (+)
  • Virtualization or the beauty of virtual machines (*) (+)
  • Systems Administration (+)
• Distributed Computing
  • Introduction to Grid Computing (+)
  • Hands on courses for classic or Desktop grids (*) (+)
• P2P networks
  • distributed storage
  • distributed computing
  • security and privacy in
• Programming (introduction and advanced)
  • in Python (preferred for introduction) (+)
    • This can be also done as game design courses, using python-game and panda3d.
  • in Java (+)
  • in C/C++ (+)
  • visually (with UML and Story diagrams) (*) (+)
    • Also here can shift the focus on game design
• Academic writing and presenting
  • How to do an interesting academic presentation (*)
  • Introduction to LaTeX and LyX – how to write a pretty and coreectly formatted and layouted academic document (*)
• Seminars and lab courses in the areas of
  • Distributed Systems
  • Software Engineering
  • Academic writing and presenting in computer science

I would be also interested in teaching the following:

• Game and simulation design (not only for Computer Science, I have background for developing games for the Estonian society: see algs)
• Database design
• Online collaboration and learning (content management, wikis, moodle and friends)

I have a long record in supervising students (see advising). If you are a student and need help with your work or have a good idea for a thesis in my research areas or projects, do not hesitate to contact me.

Teaching record

Here are the courses, I am currently teaching or have taught in the past:

2012 fall term

2012 spring term

Same as 2011 fall term. I assisted in planning and setting up the new Systems Adminstration course, mainly in shifting to a virtual machines-based lab. I am advising several students in their way to their bachelor and master thesis. I am looking forward to graduating my first doctor this year.

2011 fall term

I am out for a research year where I am doing a lot of traveling between the US and Switzerland. I assisted a lot in setting up the new Systems Modeling course (making a good part of the course based on our modeling book) and doing some supervision in the distributed systems seminar. Of course I am still advising and supervising students in their theses.

2011 spring term

• Lecture: Systems Administration: MTAT.08.021 (6CP)

• Seminars: Distributed Systems seminar (2, 4, or 6CP)

2010 fall term

• Lecture: Systems Modeling: MTAT.03.083 (6CP)

• Seminars: Distributed Systems seminar (2, 4, or 6CP)

2010 spring term

• Seminars: Distributed Systems seminar (2, 4, or 6CP)

2009 fall term

• Lecture: Introduction to Informatics – Distributed Systems (one session): MTAT.05.074

• Lecture: Software Engineering: Software Engineering Lecture (one session): course number 5, MTAT.03.094 (6CP)

• Lecture: Systems Modeling (one session): MTAT.03.083 (6CP)

• Seminar: Distributed Systems seminar (1, 3, or 5CP)

2009 spring term

• Lecture: Systems Modeling: MTAT.03.083 (4AP,6CP)

• Seminar: Distributed Systems seminar (2AP,3CP)

2008 fall term

• Lecture: Software Engineering: I took over two sessions of the Software Engineering Lecture: 4 and 10, MTAT.03.094 (4AP,6CP)

• Seminar: Distributed Systems seminar, MTAT.08.014, MTAT.08.019, MTAT.08.024 (4AP,6CP)

2008 spring term

• Seminar: Software Engineering in Distributed Systems, MTAT.08.017 (4AP,6CP)

• Lab-Course: P2P Grid Software Project/ Friend to Friend (F2F)-Computing, MTAT.08.013 (4AP,6CP)

• Seminar: Distributed Systems seminar, MTAT.08.014, MTAT.08.019 (1,2, or 3 AP)

2007 fall term

• Lecture: Software Engineering: I took over two sessions of the Software Engineering Lecture: 6 and 21, MTAT.03.094 (4AP,6CP)

• Seminar: Software Engineering in Distributed Systems, MTAT.08.017 (4AP,6CP)

• Lab-Course: Spontaneous Desktop GRID: Friend to Friend (F2F)-Computing, MTAT.08.016 (4AP,6CP)

2007 spring term

• Lecture: Software Architecture, MTAT.03.209 (4AP,6CP)

• Lab-Course: P2P Grid Software Project/ Friend to Friend (F2F)-Computing, MTAT.08.013 (4AP,6CP)

2006/2007 winter semester

• Special course over 8 weeks (initiated and supervised by me): Bright Brains in Informatics (German: Helle Köpfe in der Informatik)

2004/2005 winter semester

• Lecture: Introduction to Computer Science, Programming in Modula 3

• Seminar: Component Based Embedded Systems: Design, Configuration, and Deployment

2004 summer semester

• Lab course: Tool Support for the eHome Process

2003/2004 winter semester

• Lecture: Introduction to Computer Science, Programming in Modula 3
• Lab course: Tool support for the Specification of eHome Services

2003 summer semester

• Lab course: Ubiquitous Computing in eHomes

2002/2003 winter semester

• Lecture: Introduction to Computer Science, Programming in Modula 3
• Seminar: Ubiquitous Computing

2002 summer semester

• Seminar: Noblesse Oblige: XML-Schema and other Graph Types – Applications and Extensions of the Graph Rewriting Language PROGRES