Applying Active Methodologies for Teaching Software Engineering in Computer Engineering

The traditional teaching-learning processes used by Chilean universities are changing. This document describes two innovative strategies applied to teach software engineering (SE) at two universities in Chile. Teaching experiences are part of our ongoing effort to improve the current teaching-learning strategies of SE in the mentioned universities. In this paper, we describe our teaching experiences using both problem-based learning (PBL) and an agile software engineering methodology, to achieve learning outcomes and to improve students' participation during classes. We present two ways to correlate the activities of a software project; these activities are tasks of a software methodology and an active learning strategy based on PBL. The strategies used to verify the accomplishment of these goals are also detailed.