ANALYSIS OF A PROBLEM BASED LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN A FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS COURSE

Abstract

The university must form professionals with profiles that respond to a social demand active, more interdisciplinary and flexible. It must form people who assume the continuous formation and consider its adaptability to the socio cultural demand, in continuous change, as a necessary tool for their own development and the one of its surroundings. In this aspect the university must teach and educate. It must teach to the students to rediscover his capacity of learning and to the benefit of this gift. The university has to educate forming to the students in the aspect that they are not the whole, but they form part of a framework in continuous change and that there is important to know how to perform the own adaptation. A new vision of the university is being managed based on directives and different educational methodologies respect the classic vision of University. In this document an experience of application of the methodology of problems based learning, APB, is detailed in the matter of Physics II of the degree of Industrial Design in course 2005-06. Specifically, it was applied in one of the course units (electrostatic and direct current). It is also analyzed the academic result of the evaluation and self evaluation. Also it is pointed out a comparative one with the obtained academic result in then previous years for the same thematic.