Memorias de investigación
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ENHANCING STUDENTS? MOTIVATION AND ACADEMIC RESULTS IN THE CONTEXT OF FINAL PROJECTS THROUGH DESIGN-THINKING METHODOLOGIES
Year:2019

Research Areas
  • Engineering

Information
Abstract
With the introduction of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) all students in master?s and bachelor?s degrees must develop, before finishing the academic program, a Final Project. As time goes, these new Final Projects have turned each time more academic and got further from the job market and companies? needs. Thus, recent surveys show an incredible decrease in the students? motivation in relation to final projects, as well as some topics are totally over demanded. Besides, the number of students developing Final Projects has gone up incredibly and tutorial time has now to be divided into a much greater group of people, decreasing the tutorial quality. Therefore, to address these problems, during the second term of the year 2017/18 in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, a pilot experience has been conducted, based on the introduction of a design-thinking methodology to develop Final Projects. Results showed the quality of the tutorial action was highly improved; and students? global motivation level was also reported to be higher.
International
Si
Congress
14th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference
960
Place
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
978-84-09-08619-1
Start Date
11/03/2019
End Date
13/03/2019
From page
8235
To page
8239
Proceedings of INTED2019 Conference
Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Ingeniería de Redes y Servicios Avanzados de Telecomunicación
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía
  • Departamento: Sistemas Informáticos