Toward an Innovative Educational Method to Train Students to Agile Approaches in Higher Education: The A.L.P.E.S.

Jannik Laval (1) , Anthony Fleury (2) , Abir-Beatrice Karami (3) , Alexis Lebis (2) , Guillaume Lozenguez (2) , Rémy Pinot (4) , Mathieu Vermeulen (2)

1 DISP - Décision et Information pour les Systèmes de Production
2 CERI SN - IMT Nord Europe - Centre for Digital Systems
3 UCL - Université catholique de Lille
4 IMT Lille Douai - Ecole nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Lille Douai

Introduced in 2013, the A.L.P.E.S. approach (AgiLe aPproaches in higher Education Studies) aims to apply agile practices to teaching. Agile approaches are project management practices for IT development. More pragmatic than traditional methods, they allow to be closer to the applicant and to involve him/her as much as possible. They offer a great reactivity and a good adaptation to best meet the needs. They are used today in a large part of IT companies. Largely inspired by agile approaches, the A.L.P.E.S. approach allows the teaching of project management in a transverse way to a main course. It makes teaching more flexible and more adapted to the students. In this article, we describe the approach. We describe the tools, the process of creating a course, and the process of running a course.

Mots clés: teaching methods; pedagogical innovation; creativity; pedagogy support; Technology Enhanced Learning

Mots clés: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Jannik Laval, Anthony Fleury, Abir-Beatrice Karami, Alexis Lebis, Guillaume Lozenguez, et al.. Toward an Innovative Educational Method to Train Students to Agile Approaches in Higher Education: The A.L.P.E.S.. Education Sciences, 2021, 11, ⟨10.3390/educsci11060267⟩. ⟨hal-03242393⟩