Students Learn while Teaching

Understanding the rudiments of electric circuits is fundamental in the academic background of an electrical engineer, but also an added value for the generality of the engineers, being important the existence of an electrical circuits course in any engineering degree. A recent learning paradigm promotes the theory that knowledge is not delivered but is constructed and that the focus of education is to learn, not to instruct. We lead students through various experiences, beginning with the more traditional ones, such as lectures, laboratory work or computer simulations, to less traditional ones where students play the role of teachers while trying to solve problems. With this change we have obtained better results both in the evaluation that the students make of their own learning as in the overall evaluation of the discipline and in their final marks.