Development of a collaborative class between three universities

With the passing of time, learning methodologies have been changing, focusing on the technology as a mean to facilitate the learning process. Although the idea of a blended learning (B-learning) takes more strength every day, the concern that arises is how to take advantage of the benefits of traditional “face to face” teaching with that which only uses technological resources. A relevant issue is that the specialty courses, especially those of last courses of the formation process, have a low number of students. The proposal of this work is to create a collegiate room, which can be joined by students from different institutions, who will participate in face-to-face or remote mode, where each class will be in charge of a professor from one of the institutions, with students who will participate in face-to-face, while others will participate remotely, but, with at least one professor, in charge off support the development of the remote class in person. Practical laboratory activities can be also performed in a remote way. This modality will allow more time for each professor to work in collaborative way and it will make better use of the available laboratory equipment, both in quantity and time of use.