IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje

Excellence is one of the goals of higher education. One possible way to achieve this objective is by applying a culture based on the concepts of quality and innovation. However, the real-world application of these concepts in higher education teaching is a difficult task. In this paper, we present a Web tool to help teachers apply a code of good teaching practice based on the aforementioned concep... View full abstract»

This paper presents an experiment in which visual programming environments have been used in programming courses aiming at helping students to acquire the competencies of a course on object-oriented programming. This paper is centered on the analysis of the acceptance by the students of this type of environment, as well as its effect on the motivation of the students. The results obtained show dif... View full abstract»

This paper presents the application of project-based learning to the course on “Digital Electronic Systems,” taught in the fourth year of the B.Eng. degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation at Universidad de Vigo, Spain. The laboratory assignments and the working methodology are based on two semi-guided projects developed through an incremental process, in which the target sys... View full abstract»

The use of online self-assessed questionnaires Wirisquizzes as formative assessment tool is an increasingly widespread practice in a variety of subjects in higher education. Some previous studies have examined the impact of such questionnaires on learning outcomes in classroom environments or hybrid teaching. This paper presents an exploratory study that proves that in a course of mathematical ana... View full abstract»

The traditional teaching-learning processes used by Chilean universities are changing. This document describes two innovative strategies applied to teach software engineering (SE) at two universities in Chile. Teaching experiences are part of our ongoing effort to improve the current teaching-learning strategies of SE in the mentioned universities. In this paper, we describe our teaching experienc... View full abstract»