Sustainable Project-Based Learning Methodology Adaptable to Technological Advances for Web Programming

López-Pimentel, Juan Carlos; Alejandro Medina-Santiago; Del-Valle-Soto, Carolina; Alcaraz Rivera, Miguel

doi:10.3390/su13158482

Sustainable Project-Based Learning Methodology Adaptable to Technological Advances for Web Programming

Journal

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

Date Issued

2021

Author(s)

Alejandro Medina-Santiago

Type

Resource Types::text::journal::journal article

DOI

10.3390/su13158482

URL

https://scripta.up.edu.mx/handle/20.500.12552/4338

Abstract

The fast pace of development of the Internet and the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic have considerably impacted the educative sector, encouraging the constant transformation of the teaching/learning strategies and more in technological areas as Educational Software Engineering. Web programming, a fundamental topic in Software Engineering and Cloud-based applications, deals with various critical challenges in education, such as learning continuous emerging technological tools, plagiarism detection, generating innovative learning environments, among others. Continual change and even more change with the current digitization becomes a challenge for teachers and students who cannot depend on traditional educational methods. The article presents a sustainable teaching/learning methodology for web programming courses in Engineering Education using project-based learning adaptable to the continuous web technological advances. The methodology has been developed and improved during 9 years, 15 groups, and 3 different universities. Our results demonstrate that the methodology is adaptable with new technologies that might arise; it also presents the advantages of avoiding plagiarism in students and a personalized induction for every specific student in the learning process.