The Collaborative Learning of the Analysis and Modeling of Software with the Use of Facebook

Abstract

Collaborative learning, by encouraging students to work together to maximize their learning, has great significance in the learning of software engineering, due to its marked teamwork character. Among the advantages of this type of learning is to promote critical thinking, by giving opportunities for its members to discuss the content of their learning. From a diagnosis made to the teaching and learning process of this discipline, in the third year of the degree in Informatics Science Engineering, were identified inadequacies in the learning of software analysis and modeling, which have caused, on occasion, errors in the modeling of the structure and behavior of a computer system. In order to minimize these difficulties, this paper presents a proposal to promote collaborative learning of software analysis and modeling, using the social network Facebook, based on a class system of the topic Analysis and software modeling of the materia Software Engineering I career Informatics Science Engineering. The results obtained show the potential of Facebook to promote the collaborative learning of Software Engineering, using as a sample a group of 30 students who actively used this social network.