When science becomes interactive: a collaborative project in a teaching-learning network

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an international Project of Teaching Innovation developed between three universities (University of the Basque Country; University of Salamanca and Autonomous University of Lisbon). The focus was the process of virtualization of teaching contents. The main objective of this project was to plan and create digital didactic materials in an interactive format within an interdisciplinary perspective. Teachers and students from Science and Communication Sciences conceptualized and developed digital content of a specific course (Inorganic Chemistry) to promote an active learning framework in a digital environment. The starting point for this project was the new educational model of higher education and the use of technology as an element to empower the teaching-learning process. This paper provides an articulated analysis around this project, which focuses its main interest on the great importance that, the practical work that the students performs within the subjects has acquired in the new curricula, both at the level of hours of work and of specific weight in the final grade.