What do university students think about the new active teaching methodologies?

Résumé

This paper shows the results of the evaluation of a didactic concrete methodology as well as the work and learning of university students of different subjects, studies and educative centers of the University of Granada. The experience has been carried out to thanks to the joint and coordinated work of a group of lecturers of different departments and centers in the framework of an Educational Innovation Project, supported by the Office of Planning and Innovation of professional Teachers of this university. The results throw encouraging conclusions to continue using and perfecting this active methodology based on the self-directed learning of the student, across the initial explanation of the lesson by the lecturer of every topic of the subject’s program and later, the reconstruction of the pupil (of individual form, first, and in group, later) of the essential contents of every topic, orientated by guides of self-directed learning, and supervised by the lecturer, across of the Educational Supervision Modules (MDS), in order to adapt to the new European Space for Higher Education marked by the European globalization.