Sharedoubt: aplicación android para debatir y compartir dudas dentro de una comunidad de estudiantes

Abstract

[en] It is widely known that digital technologies are having a large impact on our daily lives, especially smartphones, which have become an essential technology for performing everyday activities. Hence, exists many apps designed to enrich and make our lives easier. This project presents the conceptualization, design and development of ShareDoubt, an app for helping students of the degree of CS at University of Barcelona to share doubts and enrich their educational experience at university. ShareDoubt tries to address one of the limitations of the Campus Virtual tool facilitated by the university: students do not use the forums despite being willing to share doubts online with their classmates. Therefore, the main objective is to create a students’ community where, through the anonymity, all kind of doubts can be shared while doing the labs and preparing the exams. In this way, the participation of other users is encouraged, allowing the generation of different discussions from one doubt. These discussions can result in collective learning, enriching the knowledge of students. For the creation of this community, an app for Android smartphones has been developed following an incremental work methodology, putting in practice what has been learned during the degree. The app has been evaluated with students in an iterative way. The results show that the app is useful and easy to use.