Active Methodologies as a way to reduce the challenges of teaching Software Engineering: diagnosis of a survey

• José Vinícius Vieira Lima University of Pernambuco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6161-9374
• Cleverton Anderson Duarte Silva University of Pernambuco https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3802-2518
• Fernanda Maria Ribeiro de Alencar UFPE
• Wylliams Barbosa Santos University of Pernambuco https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2578-1248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/cbie.sbie.2020.172

Abstract

One of the challenges of teaching Software Engineering (SE) in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) is to adapt teaching models that can meet the demands of a dynamic market and assign skills to students through practical situations. Active Methodologies (AMs) have been used in teaching SE as a way to promote innovative, humanistic, critical, and reflective training. Thus, this article diagnosed how AMs are being applied in the teaching of SE in HEI in Brazil. For this, a survey was applied with 60 teachers from the 5 regions of the country. Factors and skills needed for the use of AMs were identified. Besides, a set of lessons learned and challenges faced was categorized.

Keywords: Software Engineering, Teaching-Learning, Active Methodologies, Survey

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