(393) STUDYING THE USE AND IMPACT OF MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES PRODUCED AT THE UNIVERSITAT POLIT?CNICA DE VAL?NCIA

摘要

During last years, the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has been promoting and encouraging the design, production, and use of different multimedia resources, like instructional videos, screencasts, virtual laboratories, OpenCourseWare and Masive Open Online Courses. All these resources (38893 learning materials by January 2018) are stored in, and can be publicly accessed through, the institutional repository RiuNet (https://riunet.upv.es/). These resources enable students to review at any place and any time the contents of a given class, how to solve a particular problem, learn to use the tools and methodologies used in the laboratories and, in some cases, even perform a self-assessment to determine their degree of acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competences. If ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) tools are to become effective and integral tools in education, monitoring and evaluating this process is indispensable. Many works have already focused on designing and producing better and better multimedia resources, but not much attention has been paid to studying the actual use students make of these resources, and the impact they have on students' learning process and academic results. For this multimedia material to be useful students must know about its existence and how to correctly use it. That was the goal of an internal UPV's project for education innovation and improvement. This project monitored different information related to available multimedia resources and its use, like the number of times a multimedia resource is used, the date of that access (before or after a class, close to the examination period, or the deadline for a given assignment), the content of the resource, and its length, but also whether students know about the existence of different digital repositories for multimedia resources, whether they use them autonomously or just at teacher's suggestion, and their satisfaction with those resources. The analysis of this information could help to determine why some resources are much more used than others, to profile the use of these resources according to different degrees (engineering, architecture, and tourism), and to relate this use with students' academic results. Results obtained at different subjects of several degrees at UPV for the academic year 2016-2017 will be shown, providing information about the real use of multimedia learning materials.