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Raul Garcia Hemonnet
One more year, the URJC Online Center for Innovation in Digital Education and the URJC have awarded the best teaching practices of the University's professors, with the delivery of the VI Innovative Professors Awards.
In this edition, the first prize went to Professor Jorge Jiménez Leube and Professor José Manuel Vera Santos, both from the Constitutional Law area of the FCJS, for their initiative 'Questiona_TEAM: transcendent motivation for the acquisition of job skills in the classroom team up'.
In second place is the ETSII teacher and coordinator of the Degree in Cybersecurity Engineering, Marta Beltrán Pardo, with 'Service learning with Introduction to Cybersecurity students'.
Closing the podium are the FCJS teachers Vanesa Triviño Alonso (History of Science) and Aranzazu Hervás Escobar (Didactics and School Organization) with their proposal 'Virtual maieutics: a commitment to the development and promotion of critical and argumentative of the student through the TIC'.
The objective of this call was to improve the delivery of teaching in all its areas by promoting innovation processes in digital education, as well as the development of open educational practices and active methodologies. The winners have received a Tablet each, in addition to a diploma.
The awarded practices will, from now on, become part of the 'Bank of Good Teaching Practices of the Rey Juan Carlos University', publicly accessible through the web online.urjc.es, and managed by the Center for Innovation in Digital Education of the Rey Juan Carlos University, so that they can be known and shared by all the university's teachers, and enhance the scope of the educational innovation plans that the URJC is implementing. in their different degrees.
The rector congratulated the winners and highlighted those who "having made proposals, having innovated, have not been awarded because their work will become part of the Bank of Good Teaching Practices of the Rey Juan Carlos University, a bank that is already a reference".
He also had words of thanks for the representatives of the sponsoring companies of the awards: Fundación Internacional OCU, Telefónica and Teltek.
The representative of the OCU International Foundation, Mónica León, for her part, stressed that "a University that has a center in digital innovation is worthy of recognition." "This award, these conferences and initiatives are a showcase for other universities, companies, teachers and students," she added.
A week full of new ideas to educate
The awards ceremony for innovation marks the final culmination of the XNUMXst URJC Innovation Week, which has managed to fill almost all of its activities. During this week, teachers and members of the teams that are in charge of online learning in different universities have been able to share their way of working and their innovative projects.
Shortly before the award ceremony, the VI Conference on Teaching Innovation ended, in which numerous innovative educational proposals in education were presented, with the use of ICT as a common denominator. In these conferences it has been shown how innovative practices can be applied to any field of knowledge and university education.
During these days, the new XNUMXst Meeting of Digital Innovation for Degree coordinators has been held, in which these URJC teachers have been able to enjoy informative and training sessions, and participate in a space for reflection and sharing of experiences .
Also, this time in the form of workshops, formulas for innovation in the classroom were addressed in a practical way, aimed at improving the quality of teaching. In this edition six have been made: Educational escape room, Open publication, Didactic creations with awesomely, Adaptive Flipped Classroom (adaptive flipped learning), Digital social networks as support for teaching and Augmented reality in education.