Abstract:

During the last years, numerous methodologies and pedagogical techniques have been implemented and supported in the educational platform Moodle, as a main tool for learning management system. A few examples are collaborative learning, team work, educational videos, which guides the implementation of cross-disciplinary skills, with remarkable success of acceptance by students.

The objective of this paper is to improve the development of knowledge and experiences of the students through Flipped Learning strategies, taking advantage of another resources more widely spread among the technical subjects, as for example the Just in Time Teaching.
In this paper a Flipped Learning project is explained where combined different efforts are prepared by a group of professors of technical subjects, based on a dynamic implementation of this teaching and learning methodology. This project will allow to extrapolate the results to other subjects in Technical University studies, as well as making appropriate comparisons between them and other lectures or studies leading to a conclusion of lesson learns:
• Academic performance, through the analysis of academic results metrics.
• Cognitive, through the assessment of the media of each test/exam.
• Student’s perception toward each subject and professors measured through surveys.

All this is performed in a highly demanding environment at the University, most accused if possible by the enormous and obvious differences between the technical subjects of an engineering School, which go beyond its own structure depending on basic subjects, from applied physics to a particular subject of Marine engineering.

As conclusion of this research, the success of the project has been directly connected to some public University issues: massive groups, absenteeism, significant percentage of little-motivated teachers to change their way of teaching, etc. This environmental condition is a real challenge for the implementation of this type of methodologies, which makes particularly interesting this type of projects seeking both, the simplification of methodological processes, and its ease application into the classroom.

Keywords:

Flipped Learning, Bachelor´s and Master Degrees, Naval Architecture and Oceanic Engineering Master, research projects.