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VIRTUAL ACTIVITIES AS SUPPORT OF TEACHING IN THE NEW DEGREES
1 University of Granada (SPAIN)
2 University of Jaén (SPAIN)
About this paper:
Appears in: ICERI2011 Proceedings
Publication year: 2011
Pages: 2688-2691
ISBN: 978-84-615-3324-4
ISSN: 2340-1095
Conference name: 4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Dates: 14-16 November, 2011
Location: Madrid, Spain
Abstract:
The EEES context requires the elaboration of new academic transcript. This task has been difficult due to several reasons. In some degrees the changes are minors, but in other (like degree in Statistic in the University of Granada) are very important. The credits of some core subjects, which are very important for the student’s curriculum, have been dramatically reduced, without changing theirs original contents. The teachers now face a great dilemma: how to change their methodology to teach the same contents in a less number of hours.
This is the case of the subject “Survey sampling” from the Statistic degree of the University of Granada. This subject had originally 15 credits, and now has only 6 credits, while basically maintained the same table of contents. This reduction forces to eliminate computer exercises which were very interesting for the students.

In this paper we propose virtual exercises based on Moodle platform that allows students to develop a practice work. Exercises have been designed taking in consideration experience of previous courses and adapting it to virtual teaching.