Abstract:

The updating of teaching methodologies should be aimed at enhancing student learning. It is necessary to promote those methodologies that enable the achievement of formative objectives and competencies in each discipline.

The digitization has led us to increasingly prioritize the use of visual information. Digital resources offer new opportunities in teaching and learning processes by incorporating images, sound, and interactivity as elements that reinforce students' understanding and motivation [1].

Among the digital resources are videos, audio podcasts, PDFs, presentations, e-books, infographics, blogs, simulations, games, information on web pages, social networks, etc.

Infographics have become one of the resources used by teachers and students to present content of a certain degree of complexity. Their use is versatile and facilitate the understanding of new knowledge through organized information processing and whose use can be adapted to any topic, field of knowledge, and academic level [2].

The use of infographics as a didactic resource presents two aspects, on one hand as a means of presentation by the teacher of content of certain difficulty that can be exposed in a clearer and more attractive way for the student and on the other hand, as a way for the student to acquire digital and information processing skills through its elaboration, allowing them to develop skills to search for, obtain and process information.

In this context, we have developed a collection of infographics related to the contents of the subject "Organic Chemistry I" taught in the second year of the Chemistry Degree at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Burgos, which have been evaluated by students through satisfaction surveys. We have also used this didactic resource in the subject "Industrial Organic and Inorganic Chemistry" belonging to the Master in Advanced Chemistry, also taught at that Faculty; in this case, in addition to the infographics developed by the teacher, students have created their own infographics on various topics related to the subject.

References:
[1] Ana García-Valcárcel Muñoz-Repiso, “Recursos digitales para la mejora de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje”. Universidad de Salamanca, 2016.
[2] A. A. Arenas-Arredondo, M. S. Harringhton-Martínez, C. S. Varguillas-Carmona, and D. A Gallardo-Varguillas, “Las infografías: uso en la educación”, Dominio de las Ciencias, vol. 7, no.1, pp. 261-284, 2021.

Keywords:

Digital resources, infographics, teaching methodologies.