Learning of Software Engineering on Collaborative Virtual Enviroments

摘要

The collaborative work on virtual environments is one of the greatest outcomes resulting on the development of the information and communication technologies. These advances, that tend to minimize distances, are allowing coordinated work beyond the limits of time and space, also impacting on the educational field. Educational platforms mediated by technology are having a special focus on collaborative work as an instrument for reaching goals, and more importantly, to generate knowledge. However, there are special areas of knowledge that require, apart from the psychology and pedagogy tools, specific ones to be able to complete effectively the process of teaching and learning. Software Engineering (SE) is an area of knowledge which requires specific tools, such as the CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering). In order to use the Software Engineering in learning and teaching, some tools are needed and these have to have the appropriate characteristics for that aim. In this work, we present a model that specifies and links the concepts of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, and Ubiquitous Learning with the teaching of the Software Engineering, binding them and proposing an integral model with functional content blocks, and an implementation of this model in a software.