Strengthening the bond between Universities in Atlantic area: Urban Project Oriented Learning

Abstract

Copyright © 2021 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).It is conventional wisdom that Project Oriented Learning (POL) and formative assessment strategies in higher education is positive. In this paper we show how the fact of giving an international dimension to this educational methodology has an exponential impact on the improvement of professional competences. Cardiff University is involved in this didactic method. This universty is one of the University of de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's partner universities located in the Atlantic area, and it takes part in some teaching program activities applied to "Planning, Land Management and Urban Projects II". This subject is part of Undergraduate Degree in Architecture (Project module), and it is taught during the second (summer) semester to 2th year Studies (4.5 ECTS).