Resumen de Development of project based learning techniques by the implementation of Information Technologies

José Manuel Mesa Fernández, Joaquín M. Villanueva Balsera, V. Rodríguez, F. Rodríguez

• The Project Engineering Area of the University of Oviedo uses, in order to obtain an important part of its learning objectives, the development of practice projects by groups of students. This technique is called Project Based Learning (PBL). From the learning point of view, the objective of this technique is to promote the teamwork and to stimulate the realization and evaluation of technical judgment on projects related with every technical discipline. In this paper, a project of educational innovation sponsored by the University of Oviedo and developed during the period 2007-2008. Such Project aims to provide the students with the necessary tools to develop those activities through the use of information technologies and it is structured in two main blocks: firstly a set of tools for the complete management of Project teams has been customized and secondly a virtual library for the use of the students with previous Project examples was designed and installed.