An innovative project in archeology. The use of audiovisual material as a didactic resource in university education

Abstract

Learning mechanisms need to be rethought. The physical classroom has become a limited space for the current generation to acquire knowledge and the university has fallen into a bureaucratic trap that hampers academic visibility. The video-lesson, as well as the video-interview, are revealing themselves as two tools of enormous potential, which complement face-to-face classes and stimulate the transfer of content. They also allow an economization of resources in the long term as well as making time invested by professors and students profitable, leaving behind a system like “note-taking” in the classroom. In the present article the infinite possibilities of the use of video in higher education are exposed, as well as the contrasting reaction it is receiving in the university establishment. As a sampling, the acceptance of the use of video among historians and archaeologists from the scientific-university sphere – 180 universities from 30 countries – have generated interesting reflections, opinions and debates.