Educational innovation in astronomy teaching

  • Authors:
  • Fernando Cuartero;Jesús Ruiz;Juan José Pardo

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Castilla-La Mancha, Department of Computer Science, Albacete, Spain;IES Federico García Lorca, Albacete, Spain;University of Castilla-La Mancha, Department of Computer Science, Albacete, Spain

  • Venue:
  • EE'08 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS/IASME international conference on Engineering education
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

New technologies, currently known as NTICs (New Technologies of Information and Communication), have nowadays given the opportunity to focus on activities difficult to study by another way. This is the case of astronomy topics, in which study, the practical experiments are very difficult, but computer simulations are, not only very easy to do, but even very stimulant. Thus, we apply NTICs in the field of astronomy, obtaining a promotion of students fully prepared in astronomy and computer abilities, in order to they could access to university scientific and technological studies, under optimum conditions.