Use of online educative digital tools to encourage participation and active learning of animal physiology (digifisio)

  1. I. Sanchez-Roman 1
  2. E. Isorna 1
  3. C. Sanchez-Camacho 1
  4. L. Herrera-Castillo 1
  5. N. Saiz 1
  6. D. Madera 1
  7. A. Alonso-Gomez 1
  8. N. De Pedro 1
  9. S. Samarro 1
  10. M.J. Delgado 1
  11. M. Lopez-Torres 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

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Proceedings:
ICERI2023 Proceedings. 16th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation

Publisher: IATED Academy

ISSN: 2340-1095

ISBN: 9788409559428

Year of publication: 2023

Type: Conference paper

DOI: 10.21125/ICERI.2023 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

Abstract

“Animal Physiology” is a mandatory subject currently taught in the third year of Biology graduate studiesof the Faculty of Biological Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. During these recentpost-pandemic years, we have observed a decrease in the active participation of the students in severalacademic activities (lectures, seminars and practices) of this subject. Furthermore, the results of annualsurveys conducted among students indicated difficulties with the matter, considering it too complex anddense. For these reasons, a group of university teachers and students from the previous and presentacademic year, decided to carry out a Teaching Improvement Project using online software (Softwareas a Service, SaaS) and social media, to promote student participation and active learning.With this aim, we have designed different kind of activities using Mentimeter (an interactive presentationsoftware), Miro (a collaborative real time whiteboard software) and Twitter (a social media service) inlectures and practices as well as seminars. Specifically, we applied Mentimeter to evaluate weak pointsand the degree of integration of key concepts and, at the same time, to encourage the participation ofstudents through a series of 'on the fly' questions during the sessions. Particularly, Miro has been usedin reinforcement seminars to create concept maps on specific topics. This tool is very useful in promotingcooperative and collaborative work among students. Finally, Twitter implementation aimed to increasestudent motivation and curiosity through the publication of Wordles (guess a hidden word related to thepractices), open questions and latest news related to Physiology to generate a debate

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