Abstract:

This year affected by the coronavirus crisis marks the definitive moment to take advantage of all the possibilities offered by information and communication technologies (ICTs). It has been necessary to design and develop new modes of learning for students, which incite greater motivation at a time when ICTs have also eclipsed the prominence of traditional ways of interacting. Indeed, these technologies occupy our attention more than a quarter of the day.

Aims:
- Develop both digital and audiovisual teaching materials to improve teaching activity and the quality of learning in Nursing, Physiotherapy and Psychology degrees.
- Use simulations, Flipped Classroom and advanced didactic games to facilitate learning.
- Promote learning based on the development of generic competences (both personal and professional capacities) that are put into practice in different settings, incorporating the “Service-Learning” methodology in the field of Health Sciences.

Methodology:
Currently, the Blackboard Learn platform has become the method of information transmission between teachers-students and vice versa. This platform includes a set of educational tools that facilitate the teaching-learning process (self-assessment exercises, course planning, grades, the teaching guide, links of interest), communication (forum, chat, email, videoconference) and cooperation (online working groups). This paper describes the experiences carried out in the second semester of the 2019-20 academic year in various Health Sciences degrees at the University of Almería.

Results:
It has been necessary to review the planned programming of the subjects, adapting their contents to the new circumstances, making them realistic and reasonable so that they are suitable to the students in terms of workload. This new course must be coordinated, as much as possible, so that contents of other subjects, such as safety, go hand in hand as part of the training project with those which are the basis of the degree.
The satisfaction derived from the experience of our students with the teaching methodology and the innovative teaching materials constitutes valuable feedback for their progressive improvement. Furthermore, this feedback either shows us that our approaches are useful or suggests they should be eliminated, when efforts to achieve objectives are less successful than they would have been with the means of traditional learning.

Conclusions:
These tools should help us to promote a more effective educational model for the challenges that must be met in this adaptation to the “new normality” of 2020. Furthermore, in these times of crisis, teachers have an essential role in promoting literacy in health to stop this pandemic and motivating students to be responsible for their daily decisions and the consequences they have on their health and the environment around them.

Keywords:

Simulations, Flipped Classroom, advanced didactic games, Service-Learning, Health Science Degrees.