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Authors:
Andrew Diniz da Costa
Carlos José Pereira de Lucena
Hendi Lemos Coelho
Ricardo Almeida Venieris
Gustavo Robichez Carvalho
Keywords: challenge based learning; video classes; multidisciplinary groups; mobile development
Abstract:
In Brazil, many people cannot speak English and at the same time there is increasing interest in learning mobile development. Depending on the subject, it is easy to find good video classes online in English in the form of tutorials and even more traditional lectures from top universities. However, the same is not true for videos in Portuguese, which are scarce and often times poorer in quality. From that scenario, there is a great opportunity to create video classes in Portuguese with high quality that can impact the community interested to learn mobile development. Aiming to help the community, this paper presents the experience of an activity, which requested the creation of video classes covering topics related to mobile development from two multidisciplinary groups of students coming from different courses at a university in South America. These videos aimed to be short and offer direct explanations using practical examples. That group of students learned to develop mobile applications using the Challenge Based Learning (CBL) methodology, which provides an efficient and effective framework for learning while solving real-world challenges. This experience shows how different approaches used to present CBL impacted the creation of videos, and how the offered activity contributed positively to the learning of the students and the mobile community in Brazil.
Pages: 83 to 89
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020
Publication date: October 18, 2020
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4235
ISBN: 978-1-61208-827-3
Location: Porto, Portugal
Dates: from October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020