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Seminar highlights best practices for innovation in university classrooms

agosto 1, 2025

UCM faculty members shared experiences and methodologies capable of transforming higher education teaching, with a focus on active learning.

With the participation of academics from various faculties, the Catholic University of Maule (UCM) held a seminar aimed at sharing successful experiences of innovation in the classroom.

The event, organized by the university’s Department of University Teaching Research (DIDU), aimed to share the results of transformative projects that promote learning-centered education.

«The professors who have participated in innovation projects are like our spearhead for a cultural transformation at the university, where teaching plays a central role. Innovation must be at the service of learning and always look at how our students learn more and better,» emphasized the academic vice-rector, Dr. Andrea Precht, who led the event.

Along the same lines, the director of DIDU, Dr. Aquiles Almonacid, stressed that this second version of the seminar made it possible to highlight the impact of the innovation initiatives implemented in 2024.

“To date, we have supported 36 projects, and this year we added eight more in the third call for proposals. Our goal is for these good ideas to be shared, replicated, and generate networks among academics who seek to improve their teaching,” he explained.

Successful experiences

During the conference, six outstanding projects were presented, addressing topics such as sustainable learning in electronic engineering, active methodologies in pedagogy, and interdisciplinary clinical simulation.

One of the most talked-about initiatives was the proposal by Ana Ramírez, director of Obstetrics and Childcare, who implemented joint clinical simulation workshops between students in her program and nursing students, with the aim of promoting a collaborative and humanized approach to childbirth care.

“This project was created to intervene from the early years of training, eliminating prejudices between degree programs that often have historical tensions, but which are at the same time deeply synergistic. We want to train professionals who collaborate from the outset and work with an ethical perspective,” she said.

Other initiatives that presented their results were titled “Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Active Learning in Artificial Intelligence” and “Ultrasonic Images Improve Learning in Kinesiology” by academics Sergio Hernández and Hugo Tapia, respectively.

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