REALIZACIÓN DE SEMINARIOS A DISTANCIA MEDIANTE EL USO DE HERRAMIENTAS DE BLACKBOARD (WIMBACLASSROOM DE WEBCT) PARA CONOCER LAS APLICACIONES Y AVANCES DE LOS CULTIVOS CELULARES EN RELACIÓN AL ÁMBITO LABORAL.

Cell Cultures is a subject included in the Biologist Degree at Sevilla University, that provides theoretical and practical information in this area. Due to the quick technological development in this field, we consider that is important to contribute complementary information to students who are cursing this subject. By means of the present project, specialists from biotechnological companies, who directly use and work with cell cultures, have provided lectures about different innovative applications in this area. The conferences have been carried out without the physical presence of the speakers by the use of the Wimba Classroom online tool. The level of understanding of the conferences was tested by means of WebCT evaluation tools, and the possible impact in the final califications got by students was analized. The results show that the the group of students that actively participated in the activity got higher final calification than the group who did not participate (5,92 and 4,01 respectively). Students could evaluate different aspects of the activity by answering a WebCT survey online. The results show that Wimba Classroom is adequate for this purpose and that evaluation of the formative activity by students is quite positive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]