Skills Development in Software Engineering: The Experience of Universidad Veracruzana, Poza Rica

This paper analyzes the impact of different didactic strategies applied to skills development in a software engineering course which is taught in the Computational Technologies Engineering study program at Universidad Veracruzana, Poza Rica. This analysis includes the review of teaching, learning, evaluation and skills development strategies in the courses taught from 2013 to 2018. The analysis indicates that there has been a significant improvement in the understanding of theoretical concepts, an important progress has been made in the internationalization of the course and in the dosing of the course subjects. However, there is no significant improvement in the management of complex software development or in the speed of development.