Collaborative learning in Educational Psychology: educational innovation in Higher Education

The transformation that Higher Education has undergone over the last twenty years has led to numerous changes in university training models. Among the most frequent educational methodologies, collaborative learning has gained significant relevance as a potential strategy to promote the active role and involvement of students in the teaching-learning process and in their overall development. Considering the multiple benefits associated with teamwork, and with the intention of not only contributing to the learning of academic content, but also promoting student participation and the acquisition of personal and interpersonal skills, the teaching team of this study takes on the great challenge of designing and implementing in a university context, an experience of teaching innovation in the subject of Educational Psychology of the Psychology Degree at the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche (UMH) during the academic year 2021-22, and to know the students' opinion. Specifically, this paper presents the strategy of "Collaborative Learning" and the use of self-assessment and co-assessment e-rubrics through Information, Communication and Leisure Technologies (ICT) in the theory and practice of the subject, justifying the interest of the experience, presenting the basis that support this study and the development and procedure of the dynamics and evaluation during the semester. Finally, an evaluation of the experience by the students is made, and the limitations found in its implementation and the lines of future research-action are reflected.