BIO-MAPS: INNOVATION IN TEACHING-LEARNING OF LITERATURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

This article describes a teaching-learning experience that results from the transfer of the Bio-Maps Map Library of European Authors project (2020-2023) to improve the learning of literature in higher education. The Bio-Maps project establishes its foundations in the interdisciplinarity between literature, history and geography, also using storytelling and geo-information technologies. Taking advantage of the know-how of the project and its methodology and also adding the principles of experiential learning, we propose that our higher education students at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (SE-PIP, Portugal), carry out creative work that results in a digital product in the subject of Spanish Literature of the 20th Century of the Foreign Languages and Cultures degree. The students in pairs created a mapped biography of Spanish writers on the Arc-Gis platform. The objectives of this experience are to demonstrate that the use of active learning methodologies with a multidisciplinary approach, which includes geolocation in the cloud, and through innovative digital technology, can improve the learning of literature. The Arc-GIS Story-Maps application applied to the teaching-learning of Spanish literature is motivating for students, activates their creativity, leads them to a digital product of their authorship and empowers them.