Active learning in Telecommunication Engineering: A case study

Bologna process establishes a big change from class-based lessons to active learning. This process shifts the focus from instructor-centered teaching to student-centered active learning, putting the student in the centre of his own learning. This paper presents a case study of active learning in Telecommunication Engineering at Rey Juan Carlos University. Specifically, it presents the experience of different active learning activities in Object Oriented Programming (OOP) subject, where students developed their initiative and critical thinking. This paper presents both global data (i.e. number of students, their background, description of the theoretical, practical and new active learning activities) and specific data (i.e. scores obtained in the different activities proposed, time spent in each learning activity, participation in the learning activities, students´ interactions, etc.). Furthermore, the comments of the own students about their personal experience with these new active learning activities are included.