UVIC GI-TIC: BRIDGING ICT GAPS IN A UNIVERSITY TEACHING ENVIRONMENT THROUGH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

The change of paradigm of the European Space for Higher Education (ESHE) gave rise to new learning models placing the student as the protagonist of the process and providing the teacher with a guiding role.
In this context, in the University of Vic (UVic) arose the need to create a community sharing the affinity on the new technology use that has finally shaped as the Grup d'Innovació Docent "Incorporació de les TIC a la docència universitària" (Teaching Innovation Group: Incoporating the ICT in the university teaching). The group’s main aim is to contribute to the improvement of the teaching quality and to renew the UVic education model by means of innovative experiences in the teaching practices fostering the ICT inclusion in the teaching-learning process.

The group is composed by an interdisciplinary team of experts in diverse domains such as Communication, Education, Engineering, Sport, Health and Translation.
The aforementioned aim breaks down in the following three objectives:

1- To provide a general reference framework as regards to the use of ICT in teaching at UVic, by integrating the technological, didactic, methodological and training domains.
2- To contribute to the exchange, publication and distribution/diffusion of the current didactic experiences of the UVic teaching team in innovative ICT-integrating educating practices.
3- To offer an interdisciplinary space for collecting ICT-using innovative educating practices.

Each objective is put into practice through a working activity / working lines, which are developed in parallel and are defined as follows:

1- Implementing a specifically created general repository (Dipòsit Digital d’Activitats Docents, DDAD, Digital Stack of Teaching Activities) which feeds from ICT-based didactic resources.
2- A follow-up study on the ICT use of tutoring and communication tools along an internship period among the different participating agents (student, professional tutor and academic tutor).
3- Formation and experience sharing in the use of digital tools as applied to teaching: TIC Express.

The paper describes these working lines and the results obtained so far.