Creación de espacios virtuales para favorecer el aprendizaje colaborativo en Odontopediatría con la ayuda del CV de la UCM

Abstract

Among all teaching methodologies focused on student learning (active methods), one of the most established in Health Sciences is Problem Based Learning (PBL), incorporated in our discipline (Pediatric Dentistry, Degree of Dentistry) under the impulse of educational innovation projects of our university (UCM). Its methodology focuses in the student's ability to solve the common problems of their clinical practice by applying knowledge and skills, so they learn to develop as a profesional. The working process is structuredin four phases and ends with a summary of the information gathered, a report with new knowledge and presentation of the problem and its resolution to the whole group. The major part of the work is done in nonschool hours, which produces a discontinous tutoring. Some drawbacks emerged from the teachers and students perspective: work overload, superficial development of the problem, lack of tutorial control and excessive autonomy, parasitism among students, collective coverup, late tasks delivery and last minute difficulties in assessing individual work.etc. After analyzing these problems, we consider the Wiki could facilitate this collaborative work. Its use could bea strategy that motivates the students to realize individual and group tasks, and could allow the visibility of the whole process.