FORUMS IN THE LEARNING OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY IN THE DEGREE OF PHARMACY

摘要

The Virtual Campus provides many tools, as the presentation of didactic material, from slides, notes, exercises, videos, to qualifications, etc. But it also allows the continuous contact between professor and students as well as among the students through the Forum. We find this tool of a great utility if it is applied in an appropriate way. There are two kinds of forums, one in which all the students can accede and another with restricted access to previously assigned students. It is possible to control the time of activity of these forums. We expected this tool, shared permanently by professor and students, has advantageous effects in the learning process of Analytical Chemistry that supposes a great difficulty to a high percentage of students of Pharmacy. To probe it, in the present work a study about the adaptation of the students of Analytical Chemistry of Pharmacy to the virtual new tools was performed. The study has been carried out with the students registered in two groups of Instrumental Analysis, comparing the use of the Virtual Campus according to the number of students for group and considering the repeat and no repeat students.