Educational Innovation in Higher Education: Use of Role Playing and Educational Video in Future Teachers’ Training

Antonio-José Moreno-Guerrero,Magdalena Ramos Navas-Parejo,Gerardo Gómez-García,Carmen Rodríguez-Jiménez

doi:10.3390/su12062558

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Mar 24, 2020
Citations: 51	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: University of Granada

Abstract

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have led to the emergence of a variety of active and innovative teaching methods. This is the case in role-playing, which consists of simulating a real-life situation, in this case the school context, in which the student takes on a certain role and interacts with other students in a fictitious situation. Framed in this way, the present study aims to show if the application of the role-playing method promotes the improvement of attitude variables and practical skills. To this end, we advocated the use of a quasi-experimental methodology, with a control and experimental group and the application of a post-test. The sample is composed of 138 students from the Master of Teachers of Compulsory Secondary Education in Ceuta (Spain). The results showed that the students positively valued the application of the method, obtaining better scores in the set of variables studied, especially in motivation, creativity and collaboration. Therefore, it continues to be observed that the application of innovative methodologies through technology promotes the increase of multiple skills in the student body. This study aimed to prove that the use of active methods provides an increase in students’ skills, and that, therefore, we must bet on the use of sustainable pedagogies in order to promote a real innovation in the classrooms.

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are becoming increasingly integrated into our society and their influence on people’s lives is becoming more and more apparent
The standard deviation determines that the answers given by the students are similar, except in problem solving and content deepening, both of them from the experimental group, where they are more dispersed
It is concluded that the role-playing method, associated to the use of the educational video, in students of the Master’s Degree of Teachers of Compulsory Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching in the subject of "organization and management of centers" causes a better attitude and aptitude in the students towards the process of teaching and learning, having a positive repercussion in their academic development

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are becoming increasingly integrated into our society and their influence on people’s lives is becoming more and more apparent Their impact has reached the education system, where, through their inclusion, a transition has been made to a new way of understanding teaching and in the ways in which it is taught [1,2]. The issue is not limited to basic infrastructure equipment, and to aspects related to its adoption in the classroom, the ability to clarify the educational opportunities it offers and to know the pedagogical paths that lead to its implementation [8] For this reason, teachers must assume new methodological paradigms in which ICTs are included, promoting positive attitudes in students [9,10,11,12]

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