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Higher Education is currently facing some fundamental challenges such as the need for a new paradigm in the distribution and access to knowledge, empowering a rapprochement between academic and professional training, as well as promoting social innovation which spontaneously occurs in society. Within this context, the new educational environments are based on the use of ICT’s, which facilitate and promote communication between active users, while designing a well-organized set of Learning Objects. Hence, a team of teachers from the Department of Urbanism and Planning of the University of Granada, within their Teaching Innovation Program, has developed a new virtual learning environment mainly focused on technical and design subjects, where the main objective is encouraging creative and innovative attitudes in students. The web platform doyoucity.com has been designed as a Virtual Learning Environment with social dynamics and a granular design of its Learning Objects. Its setup is open, collaborative and interactive, aimed at people who are interested in participating in the analysis, development and critique of innovative proposals regarding the physical environment and architectural, urban and territorial scales with a strong graphical component. As a result of the development of the web technology 2.0 and the freeing up of contents, allowing free and open access to these contents, an opportunity to rethink teacher and student roles within the learning and teaching process through virtual environments. |
