Learning by teaching strategy to improve learning outcomes from undergraduate students

This paper describes the use of learning by teaching (LBT) as an instructional strategy to promote standards education in an undergraduate computer science course. The main objective of this instructional strategy is to make students understand how standards and computer network technologies are fundamental resources to create and use both internet infrastructure and services in a multitude of devices presented in daily activities. Such instructional strategy involves a distance learning platform with a sort of resources such videos, animations, class materials, online books and other resources, a set of equipment such as routers and switches to students make experiments, as well as librarian collaboration to provide access to technical standards and digital libraries. Preliminary results and observations indicate that learning by teaching is an effective approach to introduce technical standards in a computer science course compared to a traditional approach.