Work in progress - integration of new tools and technologies in electronics teaching

Nowadays the methods to learn electronics are changing, improving and adapting to new tools and possibilities that offer us new technologies like Internet. Simulation in electronics improves the activities in design of electronic circuits. Students can learn and design their own circuits. They can carry out, check, analyze and make their practices of the course in electronics applying several simulators with computer. Languages like VHDL present us a new form of designing and simulating digital electronics like a description language. New forms of adapting distance education like multimedia courses in Internet, new educational platforms like IPSS/spl I.bar/EE (Internet-based performance system support with educational elements) are configuring new methods of learning based in task instead of classic study's methods. The DIEEC (Electrical and Computer Engineering Department) and MIDE (methods of investigation and diagnosis in the education) of UNED (Spanish University for Distance Education) in Spain are working to adapt all new methods and possibilities of electronics in learning and to evaluate the quality of the new methods.