Creativity and Innovation Skills in University STEM Education: The CHET Project Approach

Autor: Jorge Rodríguez-Chueca, María del Carmen Morillo Balsera, Javier Pérez Rodríguez, María del Mar de la Fuente García-Soto, María González Miquel, Manuel Rodríguez Hernández, Pilar Cristina Izquierdo García, Encarnación Rodríguez Hurtado, Fernando Blasco Contreras, Margarita Martínez Núñez, Stefanos Giannakis, Isabel del Castillo González, Emilio Gómez, Yago Torroja Fungairiño, Sandra Martínez-Cuevas, Francisco Ismael Díaz Moreno, César García-Aranda, Agustín Molina-García
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
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6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’20) | 6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’20) | 2-5 Jun 2020 | Valencia, España
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Popis: Creativity and innovation are crucial skills to face challenges in economy, environment and social context today, especially next decade with 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations Member States. European Higher Education System considers STEM studies play a key role to lead the global labor market and address our economic system towards more sustainability and equality model. Innovative educational projects developed at the Universidad Politécinca de Madrid have identified lack of students skills in creativity and innovation to apply challenge based-learning and others methodologies in classrooms. Hovewer Higher Education institutions need a whole approach to include creativity in university curricula (graduate and postgraduate programs), at the same time, professors claim support to embebed innovative methodologies in their subjects. CHET Project is designed as a solid strategy aimed at developing an innovative process to modernization of Higher Education System in Europe. Step by step, the project begins by defining the learning environment, then developing creativity techniques and tools, and finally validating methodologies and processes. All this supported by free access online platform.
Databáze: OpenAIRE