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Strengthening Competencies for Building Software, Through a Community of Practice

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The present work describes the use of a virtual community of practice for the strengthening of capacities for software development; the study was carried out with students of informatics and related areas of higher education institutions in the southwest of Colombia. The present study was conducted in the following stages: initial approach, diagnostic, preparation, implementation, and follow-up. Results obtained allow evidence that the virtual community positively influences in the acquisition of knowledge, capabilities, and attitudes of the members of the community. The latter increases possibilities of entering the market.

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  1. Intelligent Management Systems, Fundación Universitaria de Popayán, Popayán, Colombia

    Cristian Camilo Ordoñez & Armando Ordoñez

  2. Research Laboratory in Development of Software Engineering, Universidad San Buenaventura, Cali, Colombia

    Hugo Ordoñez

  3. Information Technology Research Group (GTI), Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia

    Carlos Cobos

  4. Grupos de investigación en Ingeniería de Sistemas (Gismar), Universidad Mariana, Pasto, Colombia

    Giovanni Hernández

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Ordoñez, C.C., Ordoñez, H., Ordoñez, A., Cobos, C., Hernández, G. (2017). Strengthening Competencies for Building Software, Through a Community of Practice. In: Solano, A., Ordoñez, H. (eds) Advances in Computing. CCC 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 735. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66562-7_30

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