tailieunhanh - 8Th international conference on university teaching and innovation (cidui): Flexible training models

The 8th Internatonal Conference on University Teaching and Innovaton (CIDUI) was celebrated at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona. CIDUI has worked with scientfc and organising commitees that make sure the conferences meet quality standards. The members of these commitees are made up of university professors from diferent scientfc areas and with extensive experience. The organising commitee consists of teaching staf, academics and administratve staf specialists in the organisaton of university training and educatonal innovaton actvites. | Journal of Technology and Science Education 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND INNOVATION (CIDUI): FLEXIBLE TRAINING MODELS Organizing Commitee CIDUI CIDUI Spain The Organising Commitee of the 8th Internatonal Conference on University Teaching and Innovaton (CIDUI) wishes to thank the Editorial Board of the Journal of Technology and Science Educaton (JOTSE) for publishing this special issue. Since the year 2000, a new CIDUI conference has been held every two years. Today, it is a well-established event that provides an opportunity to share advances and innovaton in the feld of higher educaton. Like the previous editons, this one was also commited to fostering an especially partcipatory working dynamic and to promotng diferent points of view. The programmed debates were complemented by contributons from recognised specialists regarding the main topic of the conference: Flexible training models: a response to current needs. In relaton to this general subject, papers were specifcally focused on one of the four thematc axes proposed for this editon: • Flexible models in the organisaton of educaton • Emergent educatonal programmes • Student partcipaton and contributon to university life • Innovatve methodologies in teaching-learning processes. The organisaton ofered the authors of the highest-rated communicatons the chance to submit papers to the Journal of Technology and Science Educaton (JOTSE). A set of nine papers was fnally selected for publicaton in JOTSE. The contributon “Problem posing as a didactc resource in formal mathematcs courses for future high school mathematcs teachers” analyses the results of an exploratory study conducted with future high school mathematcs teachers, in which problem-posing tasks were introduced. These tasks were implemented in formal mathematcs, specifcally in the subjects of abstract algebra and real analysis. Some evidence was found to indicate that instructon involving .