Higher Education in Project-Based Computing: Inteli on the path to innovation
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https://doi.org/10.5753/rbie.2025.4320Keywords:
Curriculum, Computer science, Active methodologies, Project-based learning, Educational technologiesAbstract
The digitization of society has demanded an increasing number of technology professionals to keep up with the development of necessary computing resources. However, the quality of graduates from traditional computing courses is not meeting the market and country's needs. With the goal of training future technology leaders, the purpose of this article is to present the implementation of a project-based pedagogical approach in Computing courses, as well as the selection of the involved faculty, the creation of partnerships, the physical and technological infrastructures, and the activities that demonstrate students’ learning. This is an experience report whose methodology for developing the article was based on documentary and bibliographic approach. The educational proposal was tested in a bootcamp, and the results indicated how faculty, technological infrastructure, and partnership should be articulated to enable the implementation of a project-based teaching and learning methodologies. The result of this work is the operationalization and instantiation of a project-based pedagogical approach that allows the community to think and rethink the concrete steps for the curricular transformation of the country's Computing courses.
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