Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje móviles y su aplicación en la enseñanza de Ingeniería del Software

The emergence of Information and Communication Technologies has affected processes and methodologies of different areas. One of them has been teaching and learning. The main representative of this change is the learning management systems. These environments, while meeting institutions’ needs, do not satisfy learners’ necessities. A new concept of learning environment should be defined, this is the personal learning environments. They consider the learners as the focus of the teaching and learning process and support their lifelong learning. Both the institutional and the personal context should coexist and they should not leave out new technological trends such as the mobile devices. Along this work the application of a mobile personal learning environment to a Software Engineering subject is described. This learning environment has been based on a service-based framework and has been tested with students and teachers of that subject. Finally it is possible to conclude that the mobile personal learning environments may help to improve students’ learning.