A HYBRID INTERNATIONAL CO-TEACHING MODEL: CASE STUDY FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DEGREE

Abstract

"Degrees in Biomedical Engineering are increasingly present among the international offer. The study plans of each of them allow to provide a certain specialization towards the different sub-areas within biomedical engineering through electives: orthopedics, microbiology, robotics, biosensors or artificial intelligence applied to clinical data. The fact of including 4 subjects of artificial intelligence is another of the particularities and/or differential elements of the curriculum. The University of Deusto offers a new degree in Biomedical Engineering of 240 ECTS where all the subjects of the ""Bio"" subject are taught in English, and include ""master class"" among other teaching methodologies. The teaching modality is hybrid, with a module of 24 ECTS dedicated to state-of-the-art frameworks in bioengineering that is entirely taught virtually and where international experts in each subject participate as online teachers. This is what we call ""international co-teaching"" which allows students to have a more realistic view of the use of technologies for biomedical applications but in an international framework. These teaching modules will follow a methodology that will combine synchronous videoconference sessions by international experts with an asynchronous methodology that includes the use of gamified activities for both content presentation and evaluation. Moreover, the teaching modules will be designed and developed according to a number of learning cycles that promote the development of the independent and meaningful learning of students and promotes the development of their knowledge, skills, attitudes, competences and values. Each learning cycle has five stages: experiential context, reflective observation, conceptualisation, active experimentation and assessment. These stages facilitate students' active construction of the learning content and the meaningful integration of that knowledge that will allow subsequent recovery, application and transfer."