Una experiencia de docencia integrada

Abstract

Interdisciplinarity as a pedagogical strategy, allows correcting the atomization of an excessively individualized science, it facilitates the interaction of different disciplines aimed at an integral knowledge. And this has been the main objective raised at the pilot experience here shown based on the interdisciplinary methodology Problem-based Learning, applied to the subjects of Anatomy and Histology of the Sight Sense, and Physiology of the Eye and the Visual System, taught in the 1st course of the Optical- Optometry Degree. To this end students, assuming different rotating roles, have cooperatively resolved theoretical and practical problems common to both subjects. The final qualification was taken into account for each of the subjects of the portfolios generated during the resolution of common problems and other learning activities in each subject separately. It has also been conducted surveys to students, collecting their expectations and analyzing degree of satisfaction after applying innovative methodology. From the results we conclude that this pilot experience would have performed better learning outcomes than more traditional teaching activities. Students are, in general, more satisfied with this new way of learning.