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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ADVANCES in ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Transactions ID Number: 52-317
Full Name: Mónica Martínez
Position: Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: Camino de Vera s/n
Country: SPAIN
Tel: 963877007 Ext. 74960
Tel prefix: 0034
Fax: 963877022
E-mail address: momargo@eio.upv.es
Other E-mails: momargo@eio.upv.es
Title of the Paper: Spanish Universities shaping to European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by means new teaching methodologies. A case Study.
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Mónica Martínez-Gómez; Manuel Marí-Benlloch
Email addresses of all the authors: mamaben@eio.upv.es
Number of paper pages: 11
Abstract: - This paper describes briefly the transformation of the obligatory subject Introduction to Statistics (IS), in the first year of degree in the Faculty of Business Administration and Management (Administración y Dirección de Empresas FADE) at the Universidad Politécnica of Valencia (UPV) during the academic course 2009-2010. That course which a pilot European Credit Transfer System (ETCS) credit program was initiated, previous to its obligatory implantation in 2010, in the context of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The purpose of this research is to provide an overview of changes on the didactic model of this subject regarding previous academic years. Our work describes the new methodologies followed by teaching staff, the main problems troubled and the solutions adopted to solve them. Finally, a questionnaire was developed to evaluate the students' perceptions about new active methodologies and teamwork that let us to know how these aspects influence i!
n the development of competences and abilities, especially the interpersonal and systemic ones. In spite of the need for a larger study, the results draw that students have been fitted well to the new active methodologies and cooperative work.
Keywords: European Higher Education Area, Educational Innovation, ECTS credits, pilot project, student opinion, analysis of questionnaires
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