Abstract:

Covid-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of live, including teaching. In this article, the teaching changes experienced in the academic year 2020-2021 in the subject Automatic Systems are described and the results evaluated. Due to the effects of the pandemic, teaching has been adapted since there were not enough classrooms available to enable the correct temporal distribution of the contents. For this reason, old materials became obsolete and new materials to enable the follow-up of the contents have been developed, mostly in the form of short videos. These materials are designed to create the necessary structures that allow the students to assimilate the knowledge. This constitutes a change in the teaching towards a blended learning, which has also been adopted by other universities due to the current situation. To measure the effectiveness of the implemented changes, the activity records of the new resources have been used together with the results obtained by the students. Using these measures, the effectiveness for learning of the new methodology has been evaluated and, together with pre-pandemic data, results from this year have been compared with the ones obtained by students in previous years.

Keywords:

Covid-19, Teaching in engineering, video, blended learning.