Development of Living Documents and Experimentation with the Physical World as Strategies for the Retention and Attraction of Undergraduate Students in Programming Courses
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Castañeda, J. E. S., Gómez, J. C. M., Silgado, I. Z., Nuñez, Y. H., Martinez-Santos, J. C., & Lasprilla, G. I. B. (2021). Development of Living Documents and Experimentation with the Physical World as Strategies for the Retention and Attraction of Undergraduate Students in Programming Courses. In " 19th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology:"""" Prospective and Trends in Technology and Skills for Sustainable Social Development"""" and"""" Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Construct the Future"""", LACCEI 2021".
10.18687/LACCEI2021.1.1.381
Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Repositorio Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Autor
Serrano, Jairo
Bautista, Gloria
Martinez Santos, Juan Carlos
Mantilla Gomez, Juan Carlos
Zúñiga Silgado, Isaac
Resumen
This article describes the pedagogical strategies planned within the Computer and Systems Engineering program attached to the Faculty of Engineering of the University - before the COVID-19 pandemic, to attract the attention of new students and improve the retention of active students. In attracting new students, promotional activity is created based on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) initiatives, which target schools through academic events and competitions. In retention, we redesigned digital classrooms from the personalized construction of didactic materials used in the fundamental courses of computer science in engineering programs. In the short term, it would be a collateral benefit for the continuity of operations in the time of the pandemic. With these measures, the program reduced inter-monthly dropouts by 7% and increased the number of students by 77% in a five-year window. © 2021 Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions. All rights reserved.