APPICATION AND RESULTS OF NEW PEDAGOGICAL APPROCHES IN SENSOR NETWORKS

Abstract

The accelerated technological development, with increasingly exponential growth in the first decades of the 21st century and its widespread use in all economic and social spheres in the world, imposes challenges to society and also to professional training. The latter implies the need to introduce modifications in both pre- and post-graduate professional training, which includes not only changes in contents, but also essential changes in the pedagogical approaches used in the teaching-learning process.  One of the new contents introduced in professional training is that of Sensor Networks, both in undergraduate and master courses. At the Technological University of Havana CUJAE, this subject is part of an optional undergraduate course and of the compulsory course Sensors and Sensor Networks, of the Electronics profile of the Master's Degree. It was proposed as a paradigm to place the student at the center of the learning process and guide his thinking to achieve the individual development of professional capacities and competences - taking into account affective, social and cognitive factors - and to lay the foundations for his self-preparation and creative performance. The article presents the results of the application of a teaching-learning methodology for the design of sensor networks (previously elaborated and published) applicable at different levels of education. The results obtained in elective and Master's courses, using new pedagogical approaches, show its efficiency and effectiveness. The evaluation of teachers and students of both courses is also presented.