O projeto Hackatruck como um caso prático para capacitação tecnológica itinerante no Brasil

Abstract

This dissertation is a case study about a technological training format proposed by companies and institutions in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT) aiming to minimize a serious national problem: the lack of qualified human resources, facing the challenges imposed by the intensification of the digitization process that reaches the most different socioeconomic sectors, a problem that could be aggravated by the consolidation of the Internet of Things and the Industry 4.0 paradigm. This is the Hackatruck project, which resulted from the initiative of Flextronics, Apple and IBM, together with the Eldorado Institute of Campinas, which have partnered with higher education institutions so that university students can gain experience with tools and methodology that stimulate the development of software based solutions. The general objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of this project as a technology training practice for higher education students in Brazil. For this, the following specific objectives were defined: to analyze the results generated by the Hackatruck project; investigate the academic and professional importance of the Hackatruck project for students; and to investigate Hackatruck students' perceptions of the effectiveness of technology training through the challenge-based learning methodology. The methodological process used in this dissertation was qualitative and quantitative, through interviews, document analysis and application of questionnaires to collect information for the proposed analyzes and investigations. The main result of this dissertation can be highlighted the positive evaluation of the pedagogical proposal formulated through the Hackatruck project, denoted by learning indicators, of the students who participated in this project. In addition, studies conducted to meet one of the specific objectives of this dissertation resulted in the submission of a scientific article to the journal "Informatics in education: theory & practice".