Title :
Modeling the best practices towards the adaptation to the European credit transfer system in technical degrees within the IEEE ES chapter
Author :
Tovar, E. ; Plaza, Inmaculada ; Castro, M. ; Llamas, M. ; Arcega, F. ; Jurado, F. ; Mur, F. ; Sanchez, J.A. ; Falcone, Francisco ; Dominguez, Manuel
Author_Institution :
Madrid Polytech. Univ., Madrid
Abstract :
Several Spanish universities have started their process of adaptation towards a common educational space as a first stage towards the implementation of the credit system as established by the regulation prior to 2010. These universities have developed several highly- illuminating experiences which could be useful to those teachers and institutions who have no previous references and models to develop new experiences of ECTS adaptation. To help these scholars and universities this paper reports on a project that has been recently completed and which has been supported by the Spanish Government and by the participation to the Spanish Chapter of IEEE Education Society. More specifically, the paper provides details about the management of the project, namely, details about the contributions of its three working groups, as well as the different tasks carried out and their monitoring. The paper also describes the results obtained with the project and provides assessment on previous pilot experiences presented by Spanish university teachers at Engineering Education Conferences as well as on the experiences compiled through the project´s Web site.
Keywords :
educational institutions; further education; Engineering Education Conferences; European credit transfer system; IEEE ES chapter; Spanish universities; technical degrees; Best practices; Chapters; Distance learning; Education Society; Educational institutions; Electrical capacitance tomography; Engineering education; Globalization; Monitoring; Project management; ECTS; Globalization: preparing faculty and students; mobility;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers In Education Conference - Global Engineering: Knowledge Without Borders, Opportunities Without Passports, 2007. FIE '07. 37th Annual
Conference_Location :
Milwaukee, WI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1083-5
Electronic_ISBN :
0190-5848
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2007.4418083