O estudio do caso como metodoloxía activa no Mestrado en Eficiencia e Aproveitamento Enerxéticos

Abstract

Within the UDC's Master's Degree in Energy Efficiency and Use, which is being held in Ferrol, the subject of "Energy Policy and Investment Analysis" is taught. The detection by the teaching staff of the existence of very diverse previous academic realities among the students, allowed to turn this element into a dynamic axis of the teaching-learning process. In order to convey this reality, the active methodology of the case study was used. The subject is planned so that each classroom session has a case study from which to develop the different contents. The case is proposed by a different expert from the different companies in the sector, which are related to the Master from the practices. The teaching-learning context gains in motivation. The teaching staff becomes a point of information to which to go, no longer the main focus of attention. In return, the teachers have to spend a lot of time preparing for the subject. This effort is more than rewarded when the results are seen: a very enriching training experience based on the relationship between students and pupils, who, thanks to their previous training, see the assimilation of concepts and the acquisition of the skills of the subject enhanced.