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PROJECT-BASED LEARNING APPLIED IN THE PANDEMIC SCENARIO. CASE STUDY: FLUID-MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Universitat Politècnica de València (SPAIN)
About this paper:
Appears in: ICERI2021 Proceedings
Publication year: 2021
Pages: 3764-3769
ISBN: 978-84-09-34549-6
ISSN: 2340-1095
doi: 10.21125/iceri.2021.0899
Conference name: 14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Dates: 8-9 November, 2021
Location: Online Conference
Abstract:
The pandemic situation due to SARS-Cov-2 obligates to adapt the learning processes in different academic levels. Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) had to deal with this challenge, where the learning process changed from a face-to-face way to a virtual learning model when the confinement began in March 2020. This caused the need to adapt the teaching process, methods and materials from in-person classes to virtual ones. This contribution shows the adaptation process to face the problems caused by the pandemic and related to the on-line education through an example in a case study, particularly in the subject called Fluid-Mechanics Engineering. This subject is taught in the third year of the mechanical engineering degree at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (Campus of Alcoi). The students enrolled in this subject followed two different teaching procedures and the present research shows how the planning of the subject was adapted when the pandemic situation arose, the different activities developed to adjust to this new context as well as the perception of the students about such an adaptation through the development of an online survey.
Keywords:
COVID-19, Project-based-learning, fluid-mechanical engineering, non face-to-face classes.