Aplicación de Nuevas Tecnologías en la Docencia Universitaria

Resumo

An application of the so-called teaching pills as part of the program on new technologies for university formation developed at the University of Vigo in Spain is presented. The concept of teaching pill is analyzed and specifically one on the subject of chemical equilibrium of interest in Chemical Engineering and related areas is discussed. The teaching pills have all the same format that is based on the Polimedia definition, technique that is highly considered in new technology developments since it allows interaction between the speaker and the presentation. The final objective of the pills and in particular the one discussed in this paper is helping the learning process of students and facilitating the integration of subjects, all this within the requirements of the European Higher Education Space. Finally, some statistics on the access to these pills by user around the world are presented.