Project based learning: application to a research master subject of thermal engineering

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) requires the student a more autonomous work. This autonomy is related to the outcome of the self-regulated learning process. The self-regulation involves a self-management skill set coping with any adverse contingency and entails the knowledge of the availab...

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Autores: Arce, María Elena, Míguez Tabarés, José Luis, Granada Álvarez, Enrique, Miguez, Carla, Cacabelos, Antón
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2099/16321
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2099/16321
https://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jotse.81
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Project method in teaching
Teaching-learning interaction
Education--Study and teaching (Higher)
European Higher Education Area
Project based learning
Autonomous learning
Transversal competences
Mètode de projectes (Ensenyament)
Espai Europeu d'Educació Superior
Aprenentatge -- Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Metodologies docents
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari
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Resumo:The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) requires the student a more autonomous work. This autonomy is related to the outcome of the self-regulated learning process. The self-regulation involves a self-management skill set coping with any adverse contingency and entails the knowledge of the available abilities and the personal control to put in action those skills. The learning self-regulation serves as a critical process to develop learning to learn competences that enable to transform the mental aptitudes into academic competences. However, it is necessary to make modifications of the learning conditions to achieve it in an adequate way. Thus, the academic authorities should empower skills that facilitate autonomous learning as well as contribute with tools to the student proactivity. In this sense, the problem-based learning is an effective method to facilitate the acquisition of transversal competences. This didactic methodology may be performed in terms of individual or team-based-learning (TBL) that is necessary linked to a teaching-learning open system. An adaptation of the PBL to the thermal engineering studies, the project based learning model, was designed to the ‘Building Energetic Efficiency’ subject of the Research Master