The URJC Center for Innovation in Digital Education wins the CSIF Award for Education

The Center for Innovation in Digital Education of the Rey Juan Carlos University has been awarded the CSIF Madrid Education Prize III edition, for the launch of the Bank of Good Teaching Practices, in the Teaching category in the University field. With these awards, CSIF aims to highlight the work of teachers and public centers in the Community of Madrid, making visible the work carried out and rewarding the efforts of professionals and centers.

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The Bank of Good Teaching Practices of the Rey Juan Carlos University is a space in constant growth that collects innovative educational practices, developed fundamentally through digital technologies and that have been selected for their value, structure and contribution among the candidates for the Teacher Awards Innovators. It is an open source of resources for teachers of all degrees, both face-to-face and remote, which supports the evolution of processes and methodologies applicable to teaching.

The director of the Center for Innovation in Digital Education, César Cáceres, when collecting the Award, thanked the participation "to all the professors of the Rey Juan Carlos University who are participants and have nurtured the Bank of Good Teaching Practices so that we can provide that service so fundamental". Likewise, he highlighted that it is a public resource and its function of inspiration in the improvement of teacher training.

Currently, the Bank of Good Teaching Practices collects sixteen practices from various areas of knowledge and with a variety of methodologies (gamification, cooperative projects, autonomous experimentation, etc.), presented with a common structure and including infographic or audiovisual elements that help to understand practice from the perspective of the teacher and, in addition, provides keys on its application in the classroom.

More than twenty teachers have participated, up to now, in this Bank: María Jesús Delgado, Rosa Martínez, María del Carmen Rodado, José Manuel Sánchez Duarte, Antonio Julio López Galisteo, Marta Beltrán, Marta Linaza Iglesias, Raquel Sardá Sánchez, Ana E. Balboa González, Myriam Catalá Rodríguez, Jana Laia Montero Calle, Mónica Arnal Palacián, José María García de Madariaga Miranda, Estefanía Martín, Manuel Gértrudix, Rebeca Goya Esteban, Oscar Barquero Pérez, Juan Carlos Aguado, Esther Martínez, Ángel Velázquez, Irene Ros Martín, Julio Moreno Díaz, Elena Medina de la Viña and Raquel Sardá Sánchez.

In addition to the Center for Innovation in Digital Education, in the same category all the finalists were from the URJC: the professor of the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering, Estefanía Martín, and the director of the University for the Elderly, Jesus María Arsuaga.

Another teacher, the professor of the area of Modern History, Félix Labrador, was a finalist in the category of Research in the University Field.

In 2017, the Center for Innovation in Digital Education of the Rey Juan Carlos University received this same award in the Teaching category in the university sphere, in the 22st edition of the Madrid Education CSIF Awards, the year in which it was also a finalist in the Research category. in the University field. The awards ceremony took place this Wednesday, May XNUMX, in the auditorium of the Higher Technical School of Building.

With this award, CSIF recognizes the work of the public university community for its contribution to social development.