Learning by Doing in Higher Education: An Experience to Increase Self-learning and Motivation in First Courses

• Autores: Óscar Fontenla-Romero , Francisco Bellas , Noelia Sánchez-Maroño , J.A. Becerra
• Localización: 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems and 12th International Conference on European Transnational Educational (CISIS 2021 and ICEUTE 2021) / coord. por Juan José Gude, José Gaviria de la Puerta, Pablo García Bringas , Héctor Quintián Pardo , Emilio Santiago Corchado Rodríguez , 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-87871-9, págs. 336-345
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article presents an experience of application of the Learning by Doing methodology through a Project Based Learning (PjBL) activity in the “Computer Science” compulsory subject, which belongs to the first year of the Electrical Engineering degree at the University of A Coruña. The goal was to increase the students’ self-learning, leading to a lower degree of plagiarism and a higher motivation. The main contribution of this experience is on the introduction of a real problem to be fully solved in a first year compulsory subject. The results obtained during two academic years, applying this learning by doing methodology, showed an increase in student motivation to reach a value of 94% and also a 60% reduction of similarity between submitted programs. In addition to describing the experience and analyzing the results, the didactic impacts are discussed in a more global way

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