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Nowadays, society demands that high quality teaching practices must be part of the curriculum in higher education institutions. The interdisciplinarity view of the contents taught has made the technical aspects of engineering merge with social, cultural, and economic nuances. In this sense, the new generations of students show their interest in learning and carrying out activities that contribute to sustainability, for this reason, the inclusion of ecological themes in the subjects of computer science and software career is required. A bibliographical analysis was carried out that allowed recognition of main concepts and methodologies applied to the subject. As a result of them, an adjustment of chairs is presented allowing integrating conventional teaching with the new trends of green technology. Reforms were implemented from introductory courses to theoretical knowledge of green software, to the development of web applications with the same approach. In the same way, it involves the management of computer projects, modeling, monitoring, and optimization of resources, and green evaluation. According to the socio-educational model, the articulation between technology and sustainability will allow managing software projects that provide real solutions to problems in context.
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León-Toro, J., Buele, J., Camino-Morejón, V.M., Ayala-Chauvin, M. (2023). Sustainable Development in Higher Education Curricula for Software Engineering Chairs. In: Rocha, Á., Fajardo-Toro, C.H., Riola, J.M. (eds) Developments and Advances in Defense and Security. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 328. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7689-6_9
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