Coaching on new technologies: programming workshop on Android applications for Google phones

Abstract

In this work we describe our experience teaching an innovative Android programming workshop organized by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) within the AndroidEDU Google EMEA Program. The growing interest in Android has allowed us to apply proactive learning techniques with very good results. As teachers, this was a challenging experience, that has forced us to rethink our role, to create educational material accordant with the new communication media (forums, YouTube, etc.), and to supply the lack of expertise with an interesting collaboration between teachers and students. After three semesters teaching this workshop, we are convinced that this is an experience to share since the results have far exceeded our expectations.