Learning from practice: integrating new teaching methodologies

Abstract

Report of a pilot experience of educational innovation in the Polytechnical University of Valencia (Spain). It consisted of integrating the work of various groups of students of Documentation and Art in a joined activity: producing documentaries on artists, institutions or organizations related to Valencian Contemporary Art, with the objective of emitting it through the University Television Broadcasting. This methodology is very near to the reality of the labour market, in which groups of professionals of heterogeneous profiles usually work together. On the other hand, the students work on the resolution of real and specific informative problems, with users who are going to evaluate the result of their work immediately. Last, the requisite of producing a final report helped the students to systematize their learning processes and results