An Experience of using B-Learning technologies to Teaching Optical Communications to Engineering Students

Abstract

This paper deals with a pedagogical experience carried out with under-graduated students at the E.U.I.T. Telecommunications in Madrid, while coursing a subject of Optical Communications (OC). In this experience several B-Learning methodologies as well as technological resources have been combined, in order to get surpassing some difficulties well identified faced by the students of this subject. To find a reliable teaching strategy, the proposed methology have been introduced step by step along three academical courses, adding progressively new learning tools based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) [1,2]. The outcomes of the students assessments as well as the surveys carried out with them, have show a high improvement degree of the educative process in this specific subject of their curricula. New and more refined technologies based chiefly on remote laboratories will be tested along the next courses to overcome some issues not well surpassed yet