Abstract:
Since the Spanish Government declared the state of alarm on March 14th, 2020 because the COVID-19 pandemic, professors and students have seen how their safe zones crumbled and how the unexpected became true: teaching online for on-site studies. Universitat Pompeu Fabra has characterized, since its origins in 1990, for delivering on-site teaching. The pandemic has obliged the whole academic community to change how the teaching is conducted. This process of transforming on-site teaching online presents two challenges: completeness and accompaniment. Completeness means that teaching is conducted normally, with the same degree of quality as before the pandemic. Under normal circumstances, accompanying students requires giving them the possibility of having feedback on their work, and this normally is done through tutorials where works are discussed and students present their theories or how they did solve a concrete case. Under the current circumstances, technology does not allow the same degree of contact between professors and students, and tutorials are less interactive. For this reason, it is necessary to provide individual feedback to students, so they do not feel alone in their learning process. In this article, two different teaching experiences are explained. The first one involves students of the first course of the LL.B. in Economics in a course called “Introduction to Business Economics”, and the second, students of the third course of the LL.B. in Law in a course called “Introduction to Common Law”.
Speaker:
Mr. Tomás Gabriel García-Micó, PhD in Law, Law School, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
Tomás Gabriel García-Micó, LL.M. is a PhD in Law candidate and Teaching Assistant at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), where he is researching the substantive, procedural, and regulatory implications of new surgical technologies, in particular, surgical robots. Aside from the research of his PhD, Tomás Gabriel García-Micó took the Initial Training in University Teaching, a course of 170 hours in teaching innovation. Since then, he was deeply interested in the research on this topic. He is also a practicing lawyer. And he was working for three years in one of the biggest Spanish Law firms, Uría Menéndez.