An experience about collaborative learning in an Engineering course belonging to “Dependency and equality in personal autonomy” master

Abstract

In this paper, an experience about cooperative learning is presented; specifically, in Dependency and equality in personal autonomy master taught at the University of Jaén (Spain). For that purpose, the material of Engineering course has been provided to the student through a web educational basedplatform. This platform is used to promote a collaborative learning process. Students are grouped into two kinds of groups: (1) homogeneous groups composed of students from social and health areas and, (2) interdisciplinary ones that include additionally an engineering student. Group relationships, marks and level of satisfaction achieved are measured in order to evaluate the experience.