The objective of the Minerva project, to prepare innovative didactic materials to teach Geotechnologies to Cultural Heritage students, requires us to make a review of teaching methods that can be applied to our purpose. The result of this section will be to select those methods, strategies or techniques that best adapt to a student-centered teaching model in the field of Cultural Heritage. The focus of this section is on how to teach rather than what to teach (explained in the next sections). We want to answer the question about if there are methods more appropriate for teaching Geotechnologies and what are their main features.
Minerva teaching approach is based on three principles or guidelines:
- active learning,
- open educational practices,
- e-learning environment.
Active Learning
In current university education, the role of students tends to be predominantly passive (especially in the traditional oral-based lessons) and therefore does not favor the exercise and development of the essential competencies required in the work environment (De Prieto et al, 2021). In addition of that, there is evidence that shows that students learn more […]
Open educational practices OEP
The second guideline refers to the use of both, open educational resources (OER) to support learning (e.g. Campbell and Shin, 2014) and also open exchange of teaching practices with the aim of improving education and training (BCcampus, 2021). Open educational resources are defined as “teaching, learning and research resources that, through permissions granted by their […]
E-learning environment
The learning experiences, proposed by Minerva, will take advantage of digital technologies as the way to implement the use of student time more efficiently. In this context students will independently engage with materials offered in Minerva web (and Minerva MOOC) on their own time and at their own pace. One of the intellectual Outputs of […]