A few months ago, we started a survey trying to understand why no more universities were offering low-code courses, or at the very least integrating low-code concepts in their existing modeling courses. This question is part of our ongoing research effort in understanding and characterizing better the low-code movement.
Barriers to teaching low-code
So, what the survey results show us? The survey has so far been answered by 33 different from 19 countries.
Of all the people replying, the vast majority is teaching some software modeling (85% of them). So, clearly, the people answering the survey were biased in favor of modeling, even if teaching modeling / model-driven engineering is not easy either :-D.
This makes even more significant to see that the % of people actually teaching some low-code goes down to less than 50% (see below)
Are you teaching low-code concepts?
And why is that? Well, the following graphic shows the main reasons. The top three is the lack of teaching materials, the lack of knowledge of the teacher itself and the lack of tools.
What is stopping you from teaching low-code?
How to remove these barriers
We hope to remove these barriers with the help of our open-source low-code tool BESSER and our brand new low-code book and accompanying teaching materials. Even the teacher itself can learn using the same materials before teaching the students. And we are always happy to jump in and participate in the teaching by giving a seminar, tool demo, provide some hands-on exercises…
So, there is no excuse! (well, there is one: you need more hours for teaching machine learning courses, not even low-code can go against the current AI trend 😅.
What is stopping you?
This is an ongoing project so we would love to know more about you: do you teach software modeling? and low-code not? why not?
You can let us know your opinion by answering the survey (still open): https://forms.gle/R9aeWwLTucJQ9H3G7 or just leaving your comments in this same post.
FNR Pearl Chair. Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at LIST. Affiliate Professor at University of Luxembourg. More about me.
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