Abstract:

Teaching innovation through new technologies is a challenge that education professionals must embrace. This study details how the use of new digital tools—specifically educational videos with theoretical and practical content—can serve as an innovative methodology for students to acquire competences and theoretical concepts. The use of these teaching videos focuses on areas of structural analysis, where multiple types of subjects converge across different Engineering degrees. The audiovisual material produced consists of short videos (approximately five minutes in length), and in this edition the focus is on providing a detailed explanation of the manufacturing and construction process of precast concrete industrial warehouses, a solution increasingly in demand in the industrial sector. The material also covers more traditional types of industrial warehouses, such as steel-framed structures. The audiovisual content (photographs, information, etc.) is provided by national companies specialising in the sector, ensuring that the examples shown to students are real cases from executed projects. Through these videos, engineering students can consolidate concepts and visualise situations that, although taught in class, may be more complex to grasp in physical or practical terms. A direct benefit arising from the creation of these teaching videos is the synergy generated between public institutions—such as Universities and Technology Centres—and private companies or organisations. The use of these teaching videos need not be limited to a purely academic or informative purpose; they may also serve as a tool to assess students’ competences, for instance through multiple-choice quizzes embedded in the videos. Over the years, this educational innovation initiative has proven to be effective in supporting the development and acquisition of competences among future professionals in the field of structural engineering.

Keywords:

Teaching innovation, Educational videos, Structural engineering, Digital technologies.