Abstract:

It is estimated that by 2030 half of the jobs that exist today will have disappeared, with new ones to replace them, which will lead today's students and future workers to reconvert, being necessary not only to teach them knowledge today to be able to work, but to self-manage the acquisition of their knowledge and learn by themselves to face the challenges that they will have to overcome.

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was created to change the traditional learning model, using new pedagogical trends based on student autonomy and oriented to teach them to learn by themselves. In this new context, the Professors have a new role in which they are more than a teacher, they should guide the students teaching them how to learn not a lesson but self-learning.

In this sense, we developed the pedagogical methodology of the Flipped Learning, in which the students received the teacher's teachings (recorded) in their homes and in the classroom they have to develop projects and practical exercises to establish knowledge, to promote autonomous education. We asked the students to prepare different projects on their own and give a presentation in front of their peers. Finally, the students were subjected in practical classes to different situations where they have to adapt to find the answer to the question asked not only from toxicology but also from different related subjects. Otherwise, a control group of student where the traditional pedagogical methodology was performed was subjected to the same problems and questions.

The group of students in which we developed the Flipped Learning methodology, were able to respond in less time and with more success that the group where the traditional pedagogical methodology was performed. Ours results suggest that the students with which we used Flipped Learning acquired the ability to adapt to different environments and self-learning capacity. Further experiences must be conducted to corroborate our findings.

Keywords:

Flipped learning, Global learning, EHEA, Toxicology, self-learning.