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Developing a MOOC Initiative: Lessons Learnt from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Experience
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Despujol, Ignacio; Castaneda, Linda; Turro, Carlos – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) was the European institution with more MOOC course runs done by December 2016. This paper describes and analyses the decisionmaking process, and rationale of the development of this low budget real MOOC institutional initiative carried out by a traditional higher educational medium sized institution. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Online Courses, Curriculum Development
Tuning Impact in Latin America: Is There Implementation beyond Design?
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Beneitone, Pablo; Yarosh, Maria – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2015
Deusto International Tuning Academy is undertaking a large-scale study to analyse the impact Tuning projects may have had in participating universities. More particularly, the study hopes to provide an unambiguous answer regarding the presence or absence of the implementation of a competence-based student-centred approach in the different world…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Universities
OPEE: An Outreach Project for Engineering Education
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Martinez-Jimenez, P.; Salas-Morera, L.; Pedros-Perez, G.; Cubero-Atienza, A. J.; Varo-Martinez, M. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
During the last few years, the number of university students choosing to follow engineering degrees has decreased dramatically in Spain. For that reason, several university departments, in collaboration with some high schools, have developed a range of activities in order to promote a higher enrollment rate, to improve the level of mathematics and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Enrollment Rate, Engineering
The Effects of Curriculum Reform on Economics Education in a Spanish College.
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Garcia-Diez, Mercedes – Education Economics, 2000
Analyzes effects of curriculum changes resulting from university education reforms in Spain during 1990-95, focusing on first-cycle undergraduate economics students and using estimated education-production functions. Considers both affective and cognitive education-output dimensions. Curriculum reform produced no significant differences in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Economics Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Online Faculty Development in the Canary Islands: A Study of E-Mentoring
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Villar Angulo, Luis M.; Alegre De La Rosa, Olga M. – Higher Education in Europe, 2006
This article reports on a six-week online capacity learning and telementoring program at the Universities of the Canary Islands. Firstly, the authors give their view of online training and mentorship perspectives. They structure the argument introducing concepts about the mentor method. Simultaneously, the empirical project is illustrated with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
Some Features of Environmental Education in Spain.
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Benayas, J.; And Others – European Journal of Education, 1991
A discussion of environmental education in elementary, secondary, and higher education in Spain chronicles its history since 1970, the roles of public and private agencies in educational change, research initiatives, the effects of 1990 educational reforms, trends in facilities available for environmental education, program evaluation, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Facilities, Educational History, Educational Research