Using an Active Learning Environment to Increase Students' Engagement

摘要

In this paper, we describe a learning environment that is being used to engage and empower students' learning in a undergraduate software engineering course. The methodology is a joint of Problem Based Learning (PBL) with Learning by Teaching idea - someone can learn better if he has to teach someone else the same concept. In addition, the students must produce videos and questionnaires present their studies. In the last year and a half, the environment is been used and tested in different classrooms of the same discipline. Finally, we compare the performance of students in this period with the two years before the introduction of the methodology.