The Vice-Rector of Training and Innovation of the UMU, the Social Council of the University of Murcia and the Mare Nostrum Campus have promoted the award of the 2016 Teaching Innovation Awards. The initiative seeks to recognize and value projects involving innovation experiences Teachers relevant and likely to be useful, example and model in the field of university teaching.
To these awards will attend the projects of teaching innovation developed under the calls of the Vice President for Training and Innovation of the University of Murcia courses 2014-2015 and 2015-2016.
These projects must meet two basic requirements: be fully implemented and have submitted the follow-up and final reports required in their calls.
The works will be evaluated by a jury that will be composed of the coordinators of the participating projects themselves and will value them taking into account criteria such as interest and innovative nature of the content, methodology and materials;
Adaptation to the characteristics and format of the line and / or type of project;
Incidence on the generation of favorable changes or derived products for the teaching-learning process of the subject or area for which they have been designed;
Methodological adequacy of the work and coherence between learning objectives, methodology and evaluation, and the possibility of transferring the acquired knowledge and the products elaborated after the experience to other learning contexts.
Once all projects have been valued, the jury will raise the proposal for awarding the prizes to the Vice-Rectorate for Training and Innovation, which will repeat the same process with the Rector of the University of Murcia, José Orihuela, who will be in charge of issuing a resolution that Will be published both on the bulletin boards of the UMU and on the website of the Innovation Unit.
The total amount of the Teaching Innovation Awards will amount to a maximum of 16,000 euros, distributed as follows: first prize (3,000 euros), second prize (2,500), third prize (1,500) and nine prizes of 1,000 euros .
Source: Universidad de Murcia