The pace of technological change is accelerating, the duration of the trends is becoming shorter and the number of technological alternatives to solve IT problems grows quickly. Keeping IT higher education course curricula up-to-date becomes more and more challenging. This paper presents an empirical study that aims to assess whether an open-statement and open-solution methodology in an IT-related project-based learning (PBL) course led to the adaptation of the skills learned by students to the trends of the main IT technology domains. The study analyses data from more than 90 projects by students from eight academic years of the course” Project on Information Technologies”, carried out by students in the last year of the Bachelor of Science in Informatics Engineering at the Barcelona School of Informatics. Our results identify a high correlation between the technologies chosen in student projects and technological trends, which shows that the methodology encourages students to incorporate the latest technological innovations in their project work plan.

技术变革的步伐正在加快，趋势的持续时间越来越短，解决IT问题的技术替代方案的数量也在迅速增长。保持IT高等教育课程的最新性变得越来越具有挑战性。本文提出了一项实证研究，旨在评估与IT相关的基于项目的学习（PBL）课程中的开放式陈述和开放式解决方案方法是否导致学生学习的技能适应了主要IT的趋势技术领域。该研究分析了巴塞罗那信息学院信息工程学学士学位课程最后一年中学生在“信息技术项目”课程的八个学年中来自90多个项目的数据。