Agile Culture in Education: A Viable Possibility
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student-centered teaching, technology, learning, teaching-learning process, teaching-learning techniquesAbstract
Agile methods represent an alternative in the context of software development, enabling process optimization. The agile concept was extended to a number of scenarios, including the educational one. The aim is to discuss the agile culture in education, based on a comparison of agile manifestos for education and a survey conducted with professors in the area of Information Technology (IT). This is a exploratory research, with a qualitative and quantitative approach. A bibliographical survey was carried out and for the research with professors an online questionnaire was sent, in which the snowball strategy was adopted. Results showed that few people know about agile manifestos for education, agile methods are not widely used in education, the concept of agility is understood in a heterogeneous way and improvements were noticed in students' skills such as communication, collaboration, ability to solve problems and autonomy.
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