EVAINU Research: New Virtual Learning Environments for Educational Innovation at University
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New virtual learning environments for educational innovation at university -EVAINUis a research project about the use of ICT in teaching at the “Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona”. The project is aimed at identifying different ICT teaching experiences contributing to curricular innovation. Three case studies were developed at different undergraduate degrees. This paper describes one of them: Veterinaria Virtual. First research results show that ICT offer a lot of opportunities to improve learning and teaching process. However, it is necessary a greater institutional support in order to promote new ways of organizing teaching, to foster digital competences in teachers and students and a wider array of teaching training activities.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Cases on Inf. Techn.
دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007