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

Juan Carlos López-Pimentel, Alejandro Medina-Santiago, Miguel Alcaraz-Rivera and Carolina Del-Valle-Soto
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Juan Carlos López-Pimentel: Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Panamericana, Álvaro del Portillo 49, Zapopan 45010, Mexico
Alejandro Medina-Santiago: Coordinación de Ciencias Computacionales, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica, Luis Enrique Erro #1, Santa María Tonantzintla, Puebla 72840, Mexico
Miguel Alcaraz-Rivera: Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Panamericana, Álvaro del Portillo 49, Zapopan 45010, Mexico
Carolina Del-Valle-Soto: Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Panamericana, Álvaro del Portillo 49, Zapopan 45010, Mexico

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-25

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.

Keywords: programming approach; web programming; sustainable education; teaching experience; teaching methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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