DefinePK

Abstract

Higher education in Colombia since 2000 began to consolidate a training model oriented towards the competitive transformation of the student, in which processes are focused on problem-solving, which implies not only knowing the problem but also its conceptual and real approach. This trend has been structured over 20 years in what is known as competencies-based training and corresponds to the current state of higher education programs in the country. Although this approach has had a high degree of identification with the work environment, the truth is that the skills, knowledge, and abilities generated by the model are also applied to organizations and/or institutions. This article describes the design model of a specialized competencies-based software tool. The tool is part of the specialized training strategy of the research group and corresponds to the first of an integrated system of specialized research training. The design contemplates key elements at the pedagogical, didactic, and software engineering levels. The design architecture is made up of four stages which characterize each one of the tool's creations stages: educational design, computational design, production, and application. In the prototype, the problem of autonomous navigation of robots has been addressed, specifically, the implementation of a decentralized algorithm of the research group inspired by bacterial interaction. The preliminary evaluation of the tool has been advanced with undergraduate students linked to the research seedbed of the research group.