Abstract
Technological advances of XXth century have induced a profound change in society and, therefore, in the high education. Internet supposed a qualitative difference, as information and digital images flooded into homes around the world. The Universitat Polite`cnica de Vale`ncia (UPV) is a medium sized university of Spain that has been involved in the development of digital video content (Polimedia) to support teaching processes for several years. Joint with Polimedia and other learning objects (virtual laboratories, applets, etc.), the UPV promoted the construction of OCWs. Along with the improvement of technology, MOOCs appeared as e-learning material. In this work, we analyze the advantages and drawbacks of OCWs and MOOCs when they are used in our classroom. This experience has led us to incorporate in our methodology the flip teaching.
Highlights
Since the late 90s, the growth of technology, related to internet, media, generating videos, etc. has grown exponentially
Educational institutions have encouraged the creation of online learning materials in response to the new digital paradigm that society has experienced
Taking advantage of the accessibility features that Internet provides, several organizations have emerged as the Open Education Consortium, committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education, that envisions a world where everyone, everywhere has access to the education they need to build their futures
Summary
Since the late 90s, the growth of technology, related to internet, media, generating videos, etc. has grown exponentially. For supporting the teacher’s work UPV started a support program named “Docencia en red” (teaching network) that gives both technical and economic support to encourage teachers to develop digital learning contents and to assess its quality The OCW constitute the first major step to allow free access to knowledge from anywhere in the world having internet, so as to facilitate learning on-line. This implies to publish all of our course materials online and make them widely available to everyone. In this paper we show our experience when incorporating them to traditional subjects, commenting on the advantages and drawbacks that we have found
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