Tesis y Tesistas 2020 - Postgrado - Fac. de Informática - UNLP

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Esp. Nicolás Martín Páez
Planning Poker, Retrospectives and Iteration Review are the
five most taught practices, all five above 50%. It should be
noted that these five practices all belong to the category
“Management practices”.
Dialogue presentation is the most used strategy (94%),
which is very reasonable considering that the vast majority
give classes completely in person. The use of group activities
reaches practically 86%, which for agile methods seems
a significant number. One of the central points of agile
methods has to do with the human factor and collaboration,
and therefore an important use of group activities in
teaching these contents could be expected.
Generally speaking, the way of teaching seems to be
quite traditional. The use of information technology is not
surprising considering that we are talking about technology
majors and that current students in these majors are digital
natives. Moreover, given these particularities, a greater
penetration of information technologies in the dictation of
subjects could have been expected a priori. At one point,
it could be considered paradoxical that in the teaching of
information technologies a fairly limited use of them is
made in the form of dictation of the subjects.
It could be thought that, perhaps, part of this situation is due
to the fact that although current students are digital natives,
the same may not be the case with the majority of teachers.
According to the data provided by the Secretariat of
University Policies of the Ministry of Education of the Nation,
the institutions surveyed in this study were responsible for ~
77% of the graduates of university computer science courses
in the country in 2017. This shows of the representativeness
of the analyzed sample
agile methods or at least on some central practices of the
agile movement.
Finally, the events triggered by COVID-19 will have some
impact on teaching strategies. In fact, they are already
having it, the question will be to analyze whether the
changes produced by the pandemic situation persist over
time or not. Apart from this, the research methodology used
in this work has proven its usefulness and can be replicated
with adjustments to study the new context that will open
from the pandemic. Here it could also be interesting to carry
out case studies to understand the process of transition
from teaching proposals in predominantly face-to-face
modalities to completely virtual modalities.
Future Research Lines
This work exhaustively reports the state of the art of
teaching agile methods in undergraduate programs in the
computer science area in Argentina as of December 2019. A
research path that explicitly decided not to be addressed in
this work was the analysis of the plans study of the different
institutions. The decision was based on two issues. First,
this study aimed to obtain information that is not usually
found in study plans. Second, many times the duration of
the formal process of updating the study plans ends up
causing teachers to make informal updates on the contents
of their subjects, which causes the study plans to end up
not reflecting what is actually taught . Anyway, after having
completed this study, it could be interesting to study the
study plans and compare them with what is found here.
Another possible line of continuation of this work could be the
realization of case studies to have a deeper understanding of
some of the cases surveyed in the present study.
In another line of work, it could be interesting to develop a
teaching proposal focused particularly on the teaching of
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